Are superheavy stable quark clusters viable candidates for the dark matter?

Abstract

The explanation for the origin of families of quarks and leptons and their properties is one of the most promising ways to understand the assumptions of the Standard Model. The Spin-Charge-Family theory, which does propose the mechanism for the appearance of families and offers an explanation for all the assumptions of the Standard Model, predicts two decoupled groups of four families. The lightest of the upper four families has stable members, which are correspondingly candidates to constitute the dark matter. We study the weak and the "nuclear" (determined by the colour interaction among the heavy fifth family quarks) scattering of such a very heavy baryon by ordinary nucleons in order to show that the cross-section is very small and consistent with the observation in most experiments so far, provided that the quark mass of this baryon is about 100 TeV or above.

16 pages, extended version of Proceedings to the 13th Workshop "What comes beyond the standard models", Bled, 12-22 of July, 2010, DMFA Zaloznistvo, Ljubljana December 2010, p.203--210 [arXiv:1012.0224]

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