Nonaquarks: A Possible Candidate of Dark Matter Particles
POSTER
Abstract
The combinations of quarks and antiquarks to form baryonic particles in the early universe after the end of the quark epoch are examined. It is shown that, in addition to the formation of normal baryons, a special kind of superhadron baryons with four different charge states, referred to nonaquarks, can be formed through a two-level color-charge binding of three quarks with six antiquarks. They are entirely a new type of baryonic particles that have never been proposed, analyzed, theorized, or observed. High-energy collisions of heavy nuclei in large hadron colliders may produce hot, dense quark-gluon plasmas, where this type of superhadron baryons may be experimentally generated and detected. The formed electrically charged nonaquarks can transmute to the neutral one via beta decays, positron emissions, or double beta decays. The lowest state of the neutral nonaquarks that are formed from combinations of the first- generation or ground-state quarks and antiquarks can be an appropriate candidate of dark matter particles, weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs). The dark matter conversion or formation from antimatter or antiquarks provides a novel explanation for why the present universe is significantly missing antimatter but is fully filled with dark matter. This poster will show in detail how quarks and antiquarks combine to form nonaquareks and how the formation of nonaquarks potentially solves both the mysteries of antimmater missing and dark matter origin in the present universe.
*This work is partially supported by the NSF HBCU-UP Research Initiation Award (#2400021) and IBM-HBCU Quantum Center Award.
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2. Zhang, T. X., New Four-Element Theory of Nature, Progress in Physics, 21, 137-146 (2025)
Presenters
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Tianxi Zhang
- Alabama A&M University