A new possibility for light-quark Dark Matter
Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
2020-01-24 v1 Nuclear Experiment
Abstract
Despite many decades of study the physical origin of "dark matter" in the Universe remains elusive. In this letter we calculate the properties of a completely new dark matter candidate - Bose-Einstein condensates formed from a recently discovered bosonic particle in the light-quark sector, the hexaquark. In this first study, we show stable Bose-Einstein condensates could form in the primordial early universe, with a production rate sufficiently large that they are a plausible new candidate for dark matter. Some possible astronomical signatures of such dark matter are also presented.
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@article{arxiv.2001.08654,
title = {A new possibility for light-quark Dark Matter},
author = {M. Bashkanov and D. P. Watts},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2001.08654},
year = {2020}
}