
TL;DR
Saturons are macroscopic objects with maximal entropy that can be thermally produced without exponential suppression, making them promising dark matter candidates with unique cosmological and phase transition implications.
Contribution
This paper introduces saturons as a new class of macroscopic objects with maximal entropy, highlighting their potential as dark matter candidates and their distinctive thermal production mechanisms.
Findings
Saturons can be produced via unsuppressed thermal transitions.
They can serve as superheavy dark matter candidates with low-temperature freeze-in.
Nucleation of saturons can be described by saturated instantons.
Abstract
Saturons are macroscopic objects with maximal microstate entropy. Due to this property, they can be produced via quantum transitions from a homogeneous thermal bath, bypassing the standard exponential suppression characteristic of ordinary extended objects. In this sense, saturons carry an advantage with respect to other macroscopic objects such as black holes and ordinary solitons. Due to unsuppressed thermal production, saturons can have interesting cosmological implications. In particular they can serve as viable dark matter candidates with some unique features. Unlike ordinary particle dark matter, the superheavy saturons can freeze-in at very low temperatures. A nucleation of a saturon can be described in terms of a saturated instanton. This has implications for various phase transitions.
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TopicsAdvanced Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics · Cosmology and Gravitation Theories · Dark Matter and Cosmic Phenomena
