Phase transition sequence in a dark sector with heavy dark quarks. Confined phase (purple) bubbles nucleate in the deconfined phase (light blue) and grow, with vanishing pockets of deconfined phase. Free quarks annihilate or form bound states (orange dots).
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Accidentally Asymmetric Dark MatterPouya Asadi, Eric David Kramer, Eric Kuflik, Gregory W. Ridgway, Tracy R. Slatyer, and Juri Smirnov
Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 211101 (2021)
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