Strangeness, cosmological cold dark matter and dark energy

Abstract

It is now believed that the universe is composed of a small amount of the normal luminous matter, a substantial amount of matter (cold dark matter (CDM)) which is non-luminous and a large amount of smooth energy (dark energy (DE)). Both CDM and DE seem to require ideas beyond the standard model of particle interactions. In this work, we argue that CDM and DE can arise entirely from the standard principles of strong interaction physics out of the same mechanism.