Dark matter as a cancer hazard

Dark matter as a cancer hazard

We comment on the paper “Dark matter collisions with the human body” by K. Freese and C. Savage (2012) [1] and describe a dark matter model for which the results of the previous paper do not quite apply. Within this mirror dark matter model, potentially hazardous objects, mirror micrometeorites, can...

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Veröffentlicht in:Physics letters. B 2016-07, Vol.758 (C), p.32-36
Hauptverfasser: Chashchina, Olga, Silagadze, Zurab
Format: Artikel
Sprache:eng
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Cancer
Collisions
Dark matter
Elementary particles
Mathematical models
Micrometeorites
Mutations
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Zusammenfassung:We comment on the paper “Dark matter collisions with the human body” by K. Freese and C. Savage (2012) [1] and describe a dark matter model for which the results of the previous paper do not quite apply. Within this mirror dark matter model, potentially hazardous objects, mirror micrometeorites, can exist and may lead to diseases triggered by multiple mutations, such as cancer, though with very low probability.
ISSN:0370-2693
1873-2445
DOI:10.1016/j.physletb.2016.04.052