Dusty Dark Matter Bubbles of a New Vacuum stopped in Earth and Radiating 3.5 keV X-rays

Abstract

We continue our work on a proposal for what dark matter could be, namely that the dark matter consists of essentially macroscopic objects built from ordinary matter. The only element of new physics is that there should exist several types or phases of vacuum. Then the dark matter particles are bubbles of a new type of vacuum filled with ordinary matter - say diamond - under high pressure and the whole bubble is supposedly contaminated by the materials in the extra galactic or intragalactic space able to form dust. The dust has a lower than dimension 3 structure and may well be long chains of atoms. We begin speculations on identifying the phase transition between the vacua, which we require in our model, with a (second order?) transition revealed in the Columbia plot with quark masses as axes. In the corner of small quark masses there is a true phase transition as temperature is raised, while outside this region there is instead no genuine phase transition under variation of the temperature but rather only a crossover.

Comments: This article is submitted conference contribution to: Workshop on the Standard Model and Beyond, Part of Corfu Summer Institute, 22nd Hellenic School and Workshops on Elementary Particle Physics and Gravity, Corfu, Greece 2022 Corfu 28th August to 8th September