Particle mixing as possible explanation of the dark energy conundrum
High Energy Physics - Theory
2009-07-24 v1
Abstract
The vacuum condensate due to neutrino and quark mixing behaves as a perfect fluid and, at the present epoch, as a cosmological constant. The very small breaking of the Lorentz invariance constrains today the value of the dark energy.
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@article{arxiv.0901.4531,
title = {Particle mixing as possible explanation of the dark energy conundrum},
author = {Antonio Capolupo and Giuseppe Vitiello},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0901.4531},
year = {2009}
}
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6 pages. Ptesented at the 4th International Conference DICE 2008: From Quantum Mechanics through Complexity to Space-time -the role of emergent dynamical structures, Castiglioncello, Tuscany, Italy, 22-26 Sep. 2008