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Asymmetric Dark Matter and the hadronic spectra of hidden QCD
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 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.Comment: 22 pages, 11 figures. Additional discussion, matches published
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