AMS-02, Strongly Self-Interacting Dark Matter, and QUD

TL;DR

This paper proposes that strongly self-interacting dark matter, originating from a unique SU(5) field theory, explains cosmic ray data and the spectrum knee, linking AMS-02 observations with a novel QCD-based model.

Contribution

It introduces a new QUD framework with sextet quarks as a source of strongly interacting dark matter and connects it to cosmic ray features and collider observations.

Findings

AMS-02 data supports strong dark matter self-interaction.

QUD predicts vector boson production consistent with LHC results.

Neusons as stable, strongly interacting dark matter candidates.

Abstract

The latest AMS-02 electron/positron precision data add to the spectrum knee as direct cosmic ray evidence for an electroweak scale strong interaction. In addition, there is significant evidence for a strong self-interaction of dark matter. QUD is a unique massless SU(5) field theory with an anomaly-generated bound-state S-Matrix that could be an unconventional origin for the Standard Model. The electroweak scale color sextet quark enhanced QCD interaction is the only new physics. Production of multiple vector bosons, that acquire masses via sextet quark pions, will give the AMS positron and electron cross-sections - related vector boson pair production having been seen at the LHC. Stable sextet quark neutrons (neusons) provide a novel form of very strongly interacting dark matter that has the desired experimental properties. Large rapidity hadronic production of neusons will produce the knee.