Cosmological QCD phase transition and dark matter

DOI10.1016/S0375-9474(99)85104-5MaRDI QIDQ1598653zbMATHOpenAlexFDO

Authors Abhijit Bhattacharyya, Jan-e Alam, Sourav Sarkar, Pradip Roy, Bikash Sinha, Sibaji Raha, Pijushpani Bhattacharjee

Publication date 23 May 2002

Published in Nuclear Physics. A (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-ph/9907262

zbMATH Keywords

first order transitionquark nugget size distribution

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Strong interaction, including quantum chromodynamics (81V05) Astrophysical cosmology (85A40)

Abstract: We calculate the size distribution of quark nuggets, which could be formed due to first order QCD phase transition in the early universe. We find that there are a large number of stable Quark Nuggets which could be a viable candidate for cosmological dark matter.

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