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We present a class of models in which the coupling of the photon to an ultralight scalar field that has a time-dependent vacuum expectation value causes the fine structure constant to oscillate in time. The scalar field is assumed to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-09-07 Dawid Brzeminski , Zackaria Chacko , Abhish Dev , Anson Hook

In a recent paper \cite{Artymowski:2020zwy} we suggested the possibility that the present acceleration of the Universe is due to thermodynamical behavior of unparticles. The model is free of scalar fields, modified gravity, a Cosmological…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-10-19 Michał Artymowski , Ido Ben-Dayan , Utkarsh Kumar

We present a unified framework for the study of late time cosmic acceleration. Using methods of effective field theory, we show that existing proposals for late time acceleration can be subsumed in a single framework, rather than many…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-11-20 Minjoon Park , Scott Watson , Kathryn M. Zurek

Recent measurements of a peak in the angular power spectrum of the cosmic microwave background appear to suggest that geometry of the universe is close to being flat. But if other accepted indicators of cosmological parameters are also…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 R. A. Battye , R. Crittenden , J. Weller

The measured luminosity distances of Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) as a function of redshift have shown that the expansion of the Universe is currently accelerating, probably due to the presence of repulsive dark energy such as Einstein's…

Astrophysics · Physics 2017-08-23 A. V. Filippenko

In this paper, we introduce a non-minimally conformally coupled scalar field and dark matter in F(T) cosmology and study their dynamics. We investigate the stability and phase space behavior of the parameters of the scalar field by choosing…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-08-02 Mubasher Jamil , D. Momeni , Ratbay Myrzakulov

Dark matter, the major component of the matter content of the Universe, played a significant role at early stages during structure formation. But at present the Universe is dark energy dominated as well as accelerating. Here, the presence…

Astrophysics · Physics 2013-09-17 Saibal Ray , Utpal Mukhopadhyay , Farook Rahaman , Ruby Sarkar

This article revisits the interpretation of cosmic probes such as SNIa and BAO under a two-regions model of the universe. Standard cosmological analyses assume homogeneity, yet observations are predominantly conducted in overdense regions…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-02-21 Vincent Deledicque

Friedmann-Lemaitre universes driven by a scalar field, spatially closed and bouncing, were recently studied by Martin and Peter in [1], with the conclusion that the spectrum of their large scale matter perturbations was generically modified…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Nathalie Deruelle

The observed late-time acceleration of the Universe may be the result of unknown physical processes involving either modifications of gravitation theory or the existence of new fields in high energy physics. In the former case, such…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 N. Pires , Zong-Hong Zhu , J. S. Alcaniz

The deceleration parameter q as the diagnostic of the cosmological accelerating expansion is investigated. By expanding the luminosity distance to the fourth order of redshift and the so-called y-redshift in two redshift bins and fitting…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 Ronggen Cai , Zhongliang Tuo

We analyze two different scenarios for the late Universe dynamics, resulting into Hubble parameters deviating from the $\Lambda$CDM, mainly for the presence of an additional free parameter, which is the dark energy parameter. The first…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-04 Giovanni Montani , Elisa Fazzari , Nakia Carlevaro , Maria Giovanna Dainotti

Several kinds of astronomical observations, interpreted in the framework of the standard Friedmann-Robertson-Walker cosmology, have indicated that our universe is dominated by a Cosmological Constant. The dimming of distant Type Ia…

Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-18 Subir Sarkar

We study the primordial nucleosynthesis (BBN) in the stepwise scalar field model proposed by Ti\'an [arXiv:1912.13208, Phys. Rev. D 101, 063531 (2020)], which provides a multiaccelerating Universe solution to the cosmological coincidence…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-02-27 S. X. Tian

Correctly interpreting observations of sources such as type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) require knowledge of the power spectrum of matter on AU scales - which is very hard to model accurately. Because under-dense regions account for much of the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-11-22 V. C. Busti , R. F. L. Holanda , C. Clarkson

Quintessence is often invoked to explain the universe acceleration suggested by the type Ia supernovae observations. The aim of this letter is to study the validity of using a constant equation of state for quintessence models. We shall…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-08-31 Elisa Di Pietro , Jacques Demaret

We consider an extended scalar-tensor theory of gravity where the action has two interacting scalar fields, a Brans-Dicke field which makes the effective Newtonian constant a function of coordinates and a Higgs field which has derivative…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-01-13 Soumya Chakrabarti

The fundamental constants at recombination can differ from their present-day values due to degeneracies in cosmological parameters, raising the possibility of yet-undiscovered physics coupled directly to the Standard Model. We study the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-08-20 Masha Baryakhtar , Olivier Simon , Zachary J. Weiner

Context. Explaining the accelerated expansion of the Universe is one of the fundamental challenges in physics today. Cosmography provides information about the evolution of the universe derived from measured distances, assuming only that…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-10-05 Marek Demianski , Ester Piedipalumbo , Disha Sawant , Lorenzo Amati

Recent astronomical observations of SNIa, CMB, as well as BAO in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, suggest that the current Universe has entered a stage of an accelerated expansion with the transition redshift at $z \simeq 0.5$. While the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-11-11 Aleksandra Kurek , Marek Szydlowski