A new possibility for light-quark dark matter

@article{Bashkanov2020ANP,  title={A new possibility for light-quark dark matter},  author={Mikhail Bashkanov and Daniel Watts},  journal={Journal of Physics G: Nuclear and Particle Physics},  year={2020},  url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:210861179}}
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 d*(2380) hexaquark. In this first study, we show stable d*(2380) Bose-Einstein condensates could form in the primordial early universe, with a production rate sufficiently large that they are a plausible… 

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