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The fractal universe, preon structure of particles, and the familon model of dark matter

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The consequences of the preon structure of matter are discussed. The table of elementary particles is presented in its preon version, in which quarks, leptons and gauge bosons are considered to be composite particles. The preon model provides a natural explanation for dark matter, which consists of pseudo-Goldstone familon bosons with a mass m ∼ 10−3–10−5 eV. It has been shown that phase transitions could occur at various temperatures in a medium of familons formed of up and down quarks of different generations, leading to fractal fragmentation of the medium and the formation of “distinguished scales” in the Universe. The role of particle families is elucidatied. Fractality is also briefly discussed.

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Original Russian Text © V.V. Burdyuzha, 2014, published in Astronomicheskii Zhurnal, 2014, Vol. 91, No. 6, pp. 423–433.

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Burdyuzha, V.V. The fractal universe, preon structure of particles, and the familon model of dark matter. Astron. Rep. 58, 353–362 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1134/S106377291406002X

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