Vacuum Bubbles Nucleation and Dark Matter Production through Gauge Symmetry Rearrangement

Abstract

Modern particle physics and cosmology support the idea that a background of invisible material pervades the whole universe, and identify in the cosmic vacuum the ultimate source of matter-energy, both seen and unseen. Within the framework of the theory of fundamental relativistic membranes, we suggest a self-consistent, vacuum energy-driven mechanism for dark matter creation through gauge symmetry rearrangement.

Comments: 22pages, RevTeX, no figures; accepted for publication in Phys.Rev.D