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Can decaying vacuum elucidate the late-time dynamics of the Universe ?

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics 2018-01-04 v2

Abstract

We examine the decay vacuum model with a parameter ϵ\epsilon that indicates the vacuum energy decay rate. By constraining this model with cosmic microwave background radiation, baryon acoustic oscillation, type Ia supernovae and 30 H(z) cosmic chronometer data points, we find that ϵ=0.0003±0.00024\epsilon=-0.0003\pm0.00024 with the best fitted χ2\chi^{2} value slightly smaller than that in the Λ\LambdaCDM model. A negative value of ϵ\epsilon suggesting dark matter energy decay into vacuum energy. We also obtain the Hubble constant H0=68.05±0.56H_{0}=68.05\pm0.56 that can alleviate the current H0H_{0} tension between the local observation by the Hubble Space Telescope and the global measurement by the Planck Satellite. Using the effective equation of state formalism, we find this model is quintessence-like.

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@article{arxiv.1801.00689,
  title  = {Can decaying vacuum elucidate the late-time dynamics of the Universe ?},
  author = {Yang-Jie Yan and Deng Wang and Xin-He Meng},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1801.00689},
  year   = {2018}
}

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10 pages, 4 figures