Solar neutrinos and dark matter: cosmions, CHAMPs or DAEMONS?

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Considering a coincidence of detected solar neutrino flux with the predicted pp solar neutrino flux, the practically zero contribution of the electron capture (7Be, pep) neutrinos may be interpreted as evidence for the pp reaction being catalysed by some multicharged negative particles that make up the dark matter in the Universe, including the galactic disc. Elementary black holes with a mass (πℏc/ 4G)1/2 = 1.93 × 10−5 g, determined by 1/4 of their Compton wavelength, and the corresponding, presumably stable, charge Ze≤ G1/2M=10e, are proposed as possible candidates for such DArk Electric Matter Objects, or DAEMONS. DAEMONS are captured efficiently by the Sun, and their number accumulated by the present time ( ∼ 1030) is large enough for the reactions bursting at a rate of ∼ 108 s−1 in the ‘atomic’ shells formed around them by protons and other light nuclei to account for most of the solar luminosity. The standard problem of catalyst poisoning by heavy nuclei is not fatal for DAEMONs; indeed, since they are multiply charged, the nuclei can react in the DAEMON shells with one another (primarily with protons already in the Rydberg states) and, therefore, become lost; the nuclei can also fall below the relativistic horizon of a DAEMON in a comparatively short time. Some implications, relevant problems, and directions of further development of the proposed approach are pointed out, in particular the need for constructing cosmological scenarios that would take into account the specific properties of DAEMONs, and the physics of the DAEMONs themselves (charge conservation conditions for Z > 1, instability of the DAEMON-containing nucleons, etc.).

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