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Investigating dark energy by electromagnetic frequency shifts

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics 2022-02-23 v1 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology High Energy Physics - Phenomenology High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

The observed red shift zz might be composed by the expansion red shift zCz_{\rm C} and an additional frequency shift zSz_{\rm S}, towards the red or the blue, by considering Extended Theories of Electromagnetism (ETE). Indeed, massive photon theories - the photon has a real mass as in the de Broglie-Proca theory or an effective mass as in the Standard-Model Extension (SME), based on Lorentz-Poincar\'e Symmetry Violation (LSV) - or Non-Linear Electro-Magnetism (NLEM) theories may induce a cosmological expansion independent frequency shift in presence of background (inter-) galactic electromagnetic fields, and where of relevance LSV fields, even when both fields are constant. We have tested this prediction considering the Pantheon Catalogue, composed by 1048 SNe Ia, and 15 BAO data, for different cosmological models characterised by the absence of a cosmological constant. From the data, we compute which values of zSz_{\rm S} match the observations, spanning cosmological parameters (Ω\Omega densities and Hubble-Lema\^itre constant) domains. We conclude that the frequency shift zSz_{\rm S} can support an alternative to accelerated expansion, naturally accommodating each SN Ia position in the distance-modulus versus red shift diagram, due to the light-path dependency of zSz_{\rm S}. Finally, we briefly mention laboratory test approaches to investigate the additional shift from ETE predictions.

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Cite

@article{arxiv.2202.02731,
  title  = {Investigating dark energy by electromagnetic frequency shifts},
  author = {Alessandro D. A. M. Spallicci and Giuseppe Sarracino and Salvatore Capozziello},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2202.02731},
  year   = {2022}
}

Comments

Accepted by Eur. Phys. J. Plus (Special Issue on: Tensions in cosmology from early to late universe: the value of the Hubble constant and the question of dark energy)