Radio frequency emissions from dark-matter-candidate magnetized quark nuggets interacting with matter.

ABSTRACT: Quark nuggets are theoretical objects composed of approximately equal numbers of up, down, and strange quarks. They are also called strangelets, nuclearites, AQNs, slets, Macros, and MQNs. Quark nuggets are a candidate for dark matter, which has been a mystery for decades despite constituting ~ 85% of the universe's mass. Most previous models of quark nuggets have assumed no intrinsic magnetic field; however, Tatsumi found that quark nuggets may exist in magnetars as a ferromagnetic liquid with a magnetic field B_S = 10^12±1 T. We apply that result to quark nuggets, a dark-matter candidate consistent with the Standard Model, and report results of analytic calculations and simulations that show they spin up and emit electromagnetic radiation at ~ 10⁴ to ~ 10

SUBMITTER: VanDevender JP 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7426835 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature