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An interesting dynamical model for dark energy which does not require extremely light scalar fields such as quintessence, and at the same time explains the (near-) coincidence between the neutrino and dark energy densities is the model of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Niayesh Afshordi , Matias Zaldarriaga , Kazunori Kohri

Dark matter (DM) remains one of the most significant open questions in modern physics, with its nature and interactions largely unexplored. In this study, we investigate the behavior of massive fermionic DM particles in the context of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-11-18 Jianyuan Luo , Dicong Liang , Lijing Shao

In this paper we consider a new approach to unify inflation and the late universe with dark energy and dark matter formulated in a model that includes a non-Riemannian metric independent measure and a scalar field with spontaneously broken…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-01-31 Eduardo Guendelman , Ramon Herrera

We demonstrate that a suitable coupling between a quintessence scalar field and a pressureless cold dark matter (CDM) fluid leads to a constant ratio of the energy densities of both components which is compatible with an accelerated…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Winfried Zimdahl , Diego Pavón , Luis P. Chimento

The energy scale of Dark Energy, $\sim 2 \times 10^{-3}$ eV, is a long way off compared to all known fundamental scales - except for the neutrino masses. If Dark Energy is dynamical and couples to neutrinos, this is no longer a coincidence.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-03-23 Youness Ayaita , Marco Baldi , Florian Führer , Ewald Puchwein , Christof Wetterich

We consider ultralight scalar dark matter that couples to right-handed neutrinos. Due to the high density of neutrinos in the early universe, the background neutrino density dominates the dynamics of the scalar field, and qualitatively…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-02-05 Ryan Plestid , Sophia Tevosyan

The discovery of the accelerating universe indicates strongly the presence of a scalar field which is not only expected to solve today's version of the cosmological constant problem, or the fine-tuning and the coincidence problems, but also…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-02-24 Yasunori Fujii , Kensuke Homma

Recently, a supersymmetric model of dark energy coupled to cold dark matter, the supersymmetron, has been proposed. In the absence of cold dark matter, the supersymmetron field converges to a supersymmetric minimum with a vanishing…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-05-30 Philippe Brax , Anne-Christine Davis , Hans A. Winther

Cold dark matter explains a wide range of data on cosmological scales. However, there has been a steady accumulation of evidence for discrepancies between simulations and observations at scales smaller than galaxy clusters. Solutions to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-12-11 Bridget Bertoni , Seyda Ipek , David McKeen , Ann E. Nelson

We study a cosmological model with a fermionic field which can be interpreted as a source of dark energy in the universe. Two different approaches were considered, the first one with a massless fermionic field represented by a standard…

General Physics · Physics 2022-09-19 L. C. T. Brito , S. H. Pereira , L. N. Barboza , J. C. C. Felipe , J. F. Jesus

All pieces of concrete evidence for phenomena outside the standard model (SM) - neutrino masses and dark matter - are consistent with the existence of new degrees of freedom that interact very weakly, if at all, with those in the SM. We…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-10-18 Jeffrey M. Berryman , André de Gouvêa , Kevin J. Kelly , Yue Zhang

In the low energy effective theory of the weak interaction, a macroscopic force arises when pairs of neutrinos are exchanged. We calculate the neutrino Casimir force between plates, allowing for two different mass eigenstates within the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-10-15 Alexandria Costantino , Sylvain Fichet

A Friedmann-Robertson-Walker cosmology with dark energy can be modelled using a quintessence field. That system is equivalent to a relativistic particle moving on a two-dimensional conformal spacetime. When the quintessence behaves as a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-10-02 Felipe A. Asenjo , Sergio A. Hojman

Chameleons are scalar fields whose mass depends on the environment, specifically on the ambient matter density. While nearly massless in the cosmos, where the matter density is tiny, their mass is of order of an inverse millimeter on Earth,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Ph. Brax , C. van de Bruck , A. C. Davis , J. Khoury , A. Weltman

The minimal coupling of massless fermions to gravity does not allow for their gravitational production solely based on the expansion of the Universe. We argue that this changes in presence of realistic and potentially detectable stochastic…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-04-01 Azadeh Maleknejad , Joachim Kopp

In our present work, we study the evolution of the universe by assuming an interacting dark energy model, where dark energy interacts with matter. Basing on this model, first we calculated the dark energy density parameter and using this we…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-12-30 Debasis Sahu , Bibekananda Nayak

We propose that dark energy in the form of a scalar field could effectively couple to dark matter inhomogeneities. Through this coupling energy could be transferred to/from the scalar field, which could possibly enter an accelerated regime.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-04-25 Valerio Marra

In this work, we explore an extension of the Standard Model designed to elucidate the fermion mass hierarchy, account for the dark matter relic abundance, and explain the observed matter-antimatter asymmetry in the universe. Beyond the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-09-04 Carolina Arbeláez , A. E. Cárcamo Hernández , Claudio Dib , Patricio Escalona Contreras , Vishnudath K. N. , Alfonso Zerwekh

Weak gravitational lensing of background galaxies by intervening matter directly probes the mass distribution in the universe. This distribution, and its evolution at late times, is sensitive to both the dark energy, a negative pressure…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Kevork Abazajian , Scott Dodelson

The fact that the energy densities of dark energy and matter are similar currently, known as the coincidence problem, is one of the main unsolved problems of cosmology. We present here a model in which a spatial curvature of the universe…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Urbano Franca