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Deep Physics from Small Bodies : Macroscopic Dark Matter in the Solar System

Authors: T. Marshall Eubanks

Nuggets of condensed strange quark matter are a viable theory for macroscopic Dark Matter (DM), consistent with astrophysical constraints despite their non-negligible cross sections, due to their very small cross section to mass ratios. This presentation describes the observable consequences of the nugget theory developed by Ariel Zhitnitsky and his collegues, which predicts a stable nugget mass (MQ) in the range 10^5 kg < MQ < 4 × 10^10 kg. Unlike most experimental DM work, which can only set upper bounds to the DM density, in this case there is positive evidence for condensed Quark matter as the source of DM.

Comments: 1 Page. Poster Paper presented at the The Eighth Harvard-Smithsonian Conference on Theoretical Astrophysics

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