Description
It was recently suggested that a stable bound state of 6 quarks could exist and that it could solve the dark matter puzzle without any need for extension of the Standard Model of particle physics. In the presentation I will critically examine this suggestion: I will comment on the criticism about the ability of the "sexaquark" dark matter to give the correct relic abundance and I will summarize the direct detection bounds for this dark matter candidate. I will suggest further ways how to probe hadronically interacting dark matter that were not considered in the original publication.
Speaker
Helena Kolesova
(University of Stavanger)