# Asymmetric Dark Matter and the hadronic spectra of hidden QCD

## TL;DR

This paper investigates the hadronic spectra of hidden QCD sectors in asymmetric dark matter models, analyzing how different parameters influence the properties of potential dark matter candidates.

## Contribution

It provides a detailed analysis of the hadronic spectra in dark QCD models using the hyperspherical constituent quark model, exploring the effects of light particles and confinement scale.

## Key findings

- The lightest stable state varies with the number of light colored particles.
- Confinement scale impacts the mass and stability of dark matter candidates.
- Different gauge sector configurations lead to diverse hadronic spectra.

## Abstract

The idea that dark matter may be a composite state of a hidden nonabelian gauge sector has received great attention in recent years. Frameworks such as asymmetric dark matter motivate the idea that dark matter may have similar mass to the proton, while mirror matter and $G \times G$ grand unified theories provide rationales for additional gauge sectors which may have minimal interactions with standard model particles. In this work we explore the hadronic spectra that these dark QCD models can allow. The effects of the number of light colored particles and the value of the confinement scale on the lightest stable state, the dark matter candidate, are examined in the hyperspherical constituent quark model for baryonic and mesonic states.