Marianne Moore - A dark matter candidate in the Standard Model?

Wednesday 11 Feb 2026, 12:00 → 13:00 Europe/Stockholm

TBA (AlbaNova Main Building)

Christian Ohm (KTH Royal Institute of Technology), Milena Crnogorcevic (Stockholm University), Timothy Linden (Stockholm University), Tran Quang Thong Nguyen (Stockholm University)

A dark matter candidate in the Standard Model?

Marianne Moore

The sexaquark, a hypothetical stable and neutral QCD bound state made of six quarks, has been recently proposed as a dark matter candidate. Here, I will argue sexaquarks as a large component of the dark matter is incompatible with current observational data. To draw these conclusions, I will connect several topics, including the abundance obtained in the early Universe, scattering and annihilation constraints.

 

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Those who are at AlbaNova are very welcome to join in the room, but there is also a zoom connection: Zoom link (room 104 167 778, password 737501)