Six flavor quark matter

Abstract Macroscopic nuggets of quark matter were proposed several decades ago as a candidate for dark matter. The formation of these objects in the early universe requires the QCD phase transition to be first order — a requirement that is not satisfied in the Standard Model where lattice simulation...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Yang Bai, Andrew J. Long
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SpringerOpen 2018-06-01
Series:Journal of High Energy Physics
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Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/JHEP06(2018)072