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If the neutral component of weak-scale dark matter is accompanied by a charged excitation separated by a mass gap of less than ~20 MeV, WIMPs can form stable bound states with nuclei. We show that the recent progress in experiments…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-01-15 Haipeng An , Maxim Pospelov , Josef Pradler

An important issue in cosmology is reconstructing the effective dark energy equation of state directly from observations. With so few physically motivated models, future dark energy studies cannot only be based on constraining a dark energy…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-20 Chris Clarkson , Caroline Zunckel

We revisit a cosmological model where dark matter (DM) and dark energy (DE) follow barotropic equations of state, allowing deviations from the standard $\Lambda$CDM framework (i.e. $w_{dm} \neq 0$, $w_{de} \neq -1$), considering both flat…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-24 Dorian Araya , Cristian Castillo , Genly Leon , Juan Magaña , Angie Barr Domínguez , Miguel A. García-Aspeitia

Recent observations by the James Webb Space Telescope have revealed massive galaxies at very high redshift ($z\simeq 7-15$). The question of whether the existence of such galaxies is expected in the corresponding JWST surveys has received a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-18 Qianran Xia , Dragan Huterer , Nhat-Minh Nguyen

We examine model independent constraints on the high redshift and prerecombination expansion history from cosmic microwave background observations, using a combination of principal component analysis and other techniques. This can be…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-12-11 Johan Samsing , Eric V. Linder , Tristan L. Smith

We construct models of universe with a generalized equation of state $p=(\alpha \rho+k\rho^{1+1/n})c^2$ having a linear component and a polytropic component. The linear equation of state $p=\alpha\rho c^2$ with $-1\le \alpha\le 1$ describes…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-08-07 Pierre-Henri Chavanis

We use a variant of principal component analysis to investigate the possible temporal evolution of the dark energy equation of state, $w(z)$. We constrain $w(z)$ in multiple redshift bins, utilizing the most recent data from Type Ia…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-05-17 Paolo Serra

A new single-dynamical-scalar-field model of dark energy is proposed, in which either higher derivative terms nor structures of extra dimension are needed. With the help of a fixed background vector field, the parameter for the effective…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Chao-Guang Huang , Han-Ying Guo

We consider how well the dark energy equation of state $w$ as a function of red shift $z$ will be measured using current and anticipated experiments. We use a procedure which takes fair account of the uncertainties in the functional…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-01 Amol Upadhye , Mustapha Ishak , Paul J. Steinhardt

We apply a new non-parametric Bayesian method for reconstructing the evolution history of the equation-of-state $w$ of dark energy, based on applying a correlated prior for $w(z)$, to a collection of cosmological data. We combine the latest…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-03-20 Gong-Bo Zhao , Robert G. Crittenden , Levon Pogosian , Xinmin Zhang

This review summarizes recent attempts to reconstruct the expansion history of the Universe and to probe the nature of dark energy. Reconstruction methods can be broadly classified into parametric and non-parametric approaches. It is…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Varun Sahni , Alexei Starobinsky

We analyse the phenomenological effects of a varying Dark Energy (DE) effective speed of sound parameter, $c^{2}_{\textrm{sd}}$, on the cosmological perturbations of three phantom DE models. Each of these models induce a particular abrupt…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-11-08 Imanol Albarran , Mariam Bouhmadi-López , João Marto

The model-independent piecewise parametrizations (0-spline, linear-spline and cubic-spline) are used to estimate constraints of equation of state of dark energy ($w_{de}$) from current observational data (including SNIa, BAO and Hubble…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-04-11 Qiping Su , Xi He , Rong-Gen Cai

The present work is based upon a parametric reconstruction of the effective or total equation of state in a model for the universe with accelerated expansion. The constraints on the model parameters are obtained by maximum likelihood…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-05-27 Ankan Mukherjee

We investigate the fate of particle production in an expanding universe dominated by a perfect fluid with equation of state $p = \alpha\rho$. The rate of particle production, using the Bogolioubov coefficients, are determined exactly for…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-07-06 A. B. Batista , J. C. Fabris , M. J. S. Houndjo

The physical process leading to the acceleration of the expansion of the universe is unknown. It may involve new high energy physics or extensions to gravitation. Calling this generically dark energy, we examine the consistencies and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Eric V. Linder

We investigate dynamical behavior of the equation of state of dark energy $w_{de}$ by employing the linear-spline method in the region of low redshifts from observational data (SnIa, BAO, CMB and 12 $H(z)$ data). The redshift is binned and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 Rong-Gen Cai , Qiping Su , Hong-Bo Zhang

In this talk we would like to analyse the appearance of singularities in FLRW cosmological models which evolve close to w=-1, where w is the barotropic index of the universe. We relate small terms in cosmological time around w=-1 with the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-23 L. Fernández-Jambrina

In the studies on pre-recombination early dark energy (EDE), the evolution of Universe after recombination is usually regarded as ${\Lambda}CDM$-like, which corresponds that the equation of state of dark energy responsible for current…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-09-01 Hao Wang , Yun-Song Piao

Wheeler-DeWitt equation is applied to $k > 0$ Friedmann Robertson Walker metric with various types of matter. It is shown that if the Universe ends in the matter dominated era (e.g., radiation or pressureless gas) with zero cosmological…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-11-01 Jong Hyun Kung