Origin and detection of nontopological soliton dark matter

Abstract

Macroscopic dark matter like nontopological solitons can form either via the fusion and accumulation of free particles or during cosmological phase transitions. Both mechanisms can create dark matter with large masses ranging from TeV to solar mass. This can lead to interesting targets in direct detection, astrophysical, and cosmological searches.

Comments: 4 pages, 1 figure, contribution to the 2024 Very High Energy Phenomena in the Universe session of the 58th Rencontres de Moriond