Dark Matter as Dense Color Superconductor

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2002-04-12

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0204218v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

To appear in the Proceedings "Dark Matter 2002"

Scientific paper

10.1016/S0920-5632(03)02087-5

We discuss a novel cold dark matter candidate which is formed from the ordinary quarks during the QCD phase transition when the axion domain wall undergoes an unchecked collapse due to the tension in the wall. If a large number of quarks is trapped inside the bulk of a closed axion domain wall, the collapse stops due to the internal Fermi pressure. In this case the system in the bulk, may reach the critical density when it undergoes a phase transition to a color superconducting phase with the ground state being the quark condensate, similar to BCS theory. If this happens, the new state of matter representing the diquark condensate with a large baryon number B > 10^{20} becomes a stable soliton-like configuration. Consequently, it may serve as a novel cold dark matter candidate.

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