Einstein, Planck and Vera Rubin: Relevant Encounters Between the Cosmological and the Quantum Worlds

Frontiers in Physics

Viviana Gammaldi¹  Elisabetta Di Grezia²  Cosimo Stornaiolo²  Andy A. V. Yunge²  Giuseppe Sarracino²  Adele Naddeo²  Lorenzo Ingoglia²  Francesco Sorge²  Giampiero Esposito²  Luciano Petruzziello³  Emmanuele Battista⁴  Giulia De Somma⁵  Giovanni Covone⁵  Micol Benetti⁵  Rocco D’Agostino⁵  Mariafelicia De Laurentis⁵  Salvatore Capozziello⁵  Ester Piedipalumbo⁵  Andrea Geralico⁶  Donato Bini⁶  Stefano Viaggiu⁶  Ivan De Martino⁷  Silvia Pietroni⁸  Valerio Bozza⁸  Paolo Rota⁸  Antonio Stabile⁸  Giuseppe G. Luciano⁸  Antonio Tedesco⁸  Antonio Capolupo⁸  Aniello Quaranta⁸  Leonardo Mastrototaro⁸  Luca Buoninfante⁸  Gaetano Lambiase⁸  Lorenzo Fatibene⁹  Paolo Salucci^1,10  Andrea Lapi^1,10  Lara Pantoni^1,10  Gauri Sharma^1,10  Riccardo Valdarnini^1,10  Chiara Di Paolo^1,10  Lumen Boco^1,10 

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关键词: dark matter;    galaxies;    nature of dark matter;    beyond standard model;    modification of general relativity;    quantum gravity and cosmology;    expansion of the Universe;   

DOI  :  10.3389/fphy.2020.603190

来源: Frontiers

【 摘 要 】

In Cosmology and in Fundamental Physics there is a crucial question like: where the elusive substance that we call Dark Matter is hidden in the Universe and what is it made of? that, even after 40 years from the Vera Rubin seminal discovery [1] does not have a proper answer. Actually, the more we have investigated, the more this issue has become strongly entangled with aspects that go beyond the established Quantum Physics, the Standard Model of Elementary particles and the General Relativity and related to processes like the Inflation, the accelerated expansion of the Universe and High Energy Phenomena around compact objects. Even Quantum Gravity and very exotic Dark Matter particle candidates may play a role in framing the Dark Matter mystery that seems to be accomplice of new unknown Physics. Observations and experiments have clearly indicated that the above phenomenon cannot be considered as already theoretically framed, as hoped for decades. The Special Topic to which this review belongs wants to penetrate this newly realized mystery from different angles, including that of a contamination of different fields of Physics apparently unrelated. We show with the works of this ST that this contamination is able to guide us into the required new Physics. This review wants to provide a good number of these “paths or contamination” beyond/among the three worlds above; in most of the cases, the results presented here open a direct link with the multi-scale dark matter phenomenon, enlightening some of its important aspects. Also in the remaining cases, possible interesting contacts emerges. Finally, a very complete and accurate bibliography is provided to help the reader in navigating all these issues.

【 授权许可】

CC BY