The Cosmic QCD Phase Transition, Quasi-baryonic Dark Matter and Massive Compact Halo Objects

Shibaji Banerjee, Abhijit Bhattacharyya, Sanjay K. Ghosh +3

We propose that the cold dark matter (CDM) is composed entirely of quark matter, arising from a cosmic quark-hadron transition. We denote this phase as "quasibaryonic", distinct fr…