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Scully, Benjamin Peter

The axion quark nugget dark matter model offers a solution to both the dark matter and matter-antimatter asymmetry problems observed in our universe. As a sparsely distributed dark matter model with a non-negligible emission mechanism, the most promising avenue of detection lies in astronomical observation. In this thesis, the thermal emission of axion quark nuggets is simulated on cosmological scales and directly compared to observational limits of the Euclid Telescope and James Webb Space Telescope. We find that certain mass ranges of axion quark nuggets produce emission which lies in a theoretically detectable region of both telescopes while not being ruled out by existing observations. This opens the door for the application of component separation techniques to achieve a dark matter detection in current-day telescope observations in the near future.

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University of British Columbia. PHYS_V 449

Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library

10.14288/1.0448674

Science, Faculty of; Physics and Astronomy, Department of

Undergraduate

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