2020/10/26 by V. Beylin, Vitaly Beylin, M. Khlopov +4 · 38 citations
Physics and Astronomy · #Astrophysics #Cosmology #Cosmology and Gravitation Theories #Dark Matter and Cosmic Phenomena #Dark energy #Dark matter #Hot dark matter #Particle physics #Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies #Physics #Physics beyond the Standard Model #Quantum chromodynamics #Quark #Theoretical physics #Universe #hep-ph
paper · pdf · doi:10.3390/universe6110196
published in Universe 6(11), 196 (Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute) · 32 pages, 3 figures
arxiv created 2020/10/26 · openalex publication_date 2020/10/26 · arxiv updated 2020/10/30 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05
The history of dark universe physics can be traced from processes in the very early universe to the modern dominance of dark matter and energy. Here, we review the possible nontrivial role of strong interactions in cosmological effects of new physics. In the case of ordinary QCD interaction, the existence of new stable colored particles such as new stable quarks leads to new exotic forms of matter, some of which can be candidates for dark matter. New QCD-like strong interactions lead to new stable composite candidates bound by QCD-like confinement. We put special emphasis on the effects of interaction between new stable hadrons and ordinary matter, formation of anomalous forms of cosmic rays and exotic forms of matter, like stable fractionally charged particles. The possible correlation of these effects with high energy neutrino and cosmic ray signatures opens the way to study new physics of strong interactions by its indirect multi-messenger astrophysical probes.