Speculation On a Source of Dark Matter

2017/05/18 by R. E. Packard, Packard, Richard E.
Physics and Astronomy · #Atomic and Subatomic Physics Research #Dark Matter and Cosmic Phenomena #FOS: Physical sciences #General Physics (physics.gen-ph) #Quantum, superfluid, helium dynamics

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1705.08748

openalex publication_date 2017/05/18 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28

Abstract

By drawing an analogy with superfluid 4He vortices we suggest that dark matter may consist of irreducibly small remnants of cosmic strings.

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