http://arxiv.org/abs/2105.02840
First-order phase transitions can leave relic pockets of false vacua and their particles, that manifest as macroscopic Dark Matter. We compute one predictive model: a gauge theory with a dark quark relic heavier than the confinement scale. During the first-order phase transition to confinement, dark quarks remain in the false vacuum and get compressed, forming Fermi balls that can undergo gravitational collapse to stable dark dwarfs (bound states analogous to white dwarfs) near the Chandrasekhar limit, or to primordial black holes.
C. Gross, G. Landini, A. Strumia, et. al.
Fri, 7 May 21
22/61
Comments: 23 pages, 4 figures
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