1998/10/23 by S. Fredriksson, D. Enstrom, Fredriksson, S. +7
Physics and Astronomy · #Astrophysics (astro-ph) #FOS: Physical sciences #High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph) #astro-ph #hep-ph
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.astro-ph/9810389
8 pages Latex, no figures; to be published in the Proceedings of Dark '98, Heidelberg, July 1998
arxiv created 1998/10/23 · arxiv updated 2009/11/30
We suggest that dark matter is made up of massive quark objects that have survived from the Big Bang, representing the ground state of ``baryonic'' matter. Hence, there was no overall phase transition of the original quark matter, but only a split-up into smaller objects. We speculate that normal hadronic matter comes about through enforced phase transitions when such objects merge or collide, which also gives rise to the cosmic gamma-ray bursts.