The de Broglie universal substratum, the Lochak monopoles and the dark universe

Abstract

We propose to interpret the dark universe (dark matter and dark energy) of the current cosmological standard model as emerging together with ordinary matter, from the quantum vacuum, which de Broglie called the "universal substratum". It will be shown that this interpretation may lead to a reasonable agreement between the current understanding of the quantum vacuum in quantum field theory and current evidences for the existence of dark energy and dark matter, and that dark matter can be interpreted as emerging from the QCD vacuum, as a Bose-Einstein gluon condensate, with an energy density relative to the baryonic energy density that agrees with observation.

Comments: 20 pages, 3 figures, this article replaces the one untitled The dark universe and the quantum vacuum, it is an extended written version of my invited contribution to a workshop held at Institut Louis de Broglie on June 4th 2019