Einstein, Planck and Vera Rubin: relevant encounters between the Cosmological and the Quantum Worlds
Creators: name: Salucci, Paolo
name: Esposito, Giampiero
name: Lambiase, Gaetano
name: Battista, Emmanuele
name: Benetti, Micol
name: Bini, Donato
name: Boco, Lumen
name: Sharma, Gauri
name: Bozza, Valerio
name: Buoninfante, Luca
name: Capolupo, Antonio
name: Capozziello, Salvatore
name: Covone, Giovanni
name: D'Agostino, Rocco
name: DeLaurentis, Mariafelicia
name: De Martino, Ivan
name: De Somma, Giulia
name: Di Grezia, Elisabetta
name: Di Paolo, Chiara
name: Fatibene, Lorenzo
name: Gammaldi, Viviana
name: Geralico, Andrea
name: Ingoglia, Lorenzo
name: Lapi, Andrea
name: Luciano, Giuseppe G.
name: Mastrototaro, Leonardo
name: Naddeo, Adele
name: Pantoni, Lara
name: Petruzziello, Luciano
name: Piedipalumbo, Ester
name: Pietroni, Silvia
name: Quaranta, Aniello
name: Rota, Paolo
name: Sarracino, Giuseppe
name: Sorge, Francesco
name: Stabile, Antonio
name: Stornaiolo, Cosimo
name: Tedesco, Antonio
name: Valdarnini, Riccardo
name: Viaggiu, Stefano
name: Yunge, Andy A. V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: 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 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 DM 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.
description: 64 pages 16 Figures. In print on Frontiers in Astronomy and Space Sciences, for the Research Topic: "When Planck, Einstein and Vera Rubin Meet. Dark Matter: What is it ? Where is it?"