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We investigate the cosmological dynamics of a class of supersymmetric chameleon models coupled to cold dark matter fermions. Supergravity corrections ensure that these models are efficiently screened in all astrophysical objects of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-10-28 Philippe Brax , Anne-Christine Davis , Jeremy Sakstein

Although the standard cosmological model, the so-called $\Lambda$ Cold Dark Matter ("$\Lambda$CDM"), appears to fit well observations at the cosmological level, it is well known that it possesses several inconsistencies at the galactic…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-03-24 Luis E. Padilla , Jordi Solís-López , Tonatiuh Matos , Ana Ávilez-López

Phase-space descriptions are used to find qualitative features of the solutions of generalized scalar field cosmologies with arbitrary potentials and arbitrary couplings to matter. Previous results are summarized and new ones are presented…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-12-01 Genly Leon , Felipe Orlando Franz Silva

As wide-field surveys yield ever more precise measurements, cosmology has entered a phase of high precision requiring highly accurate and fast theoretical predictions. At the heart of most cosmological model predictions is a numerical…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-08-18 Alexandre Refregier , Lukas Gamper , Adam Amara , Lavinia Heisenberg

Recently, DAMPE experiment released the new measurement of the total cosmic $e^+e^-$ flux between 25 GeV and 4.6 TeV which indicates a spectral softening at around 0.9 TeV and a tentative peak at around 1.4 TeV. We utilize the scalar dark…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-05-16 Junjie Cao , Lei Feng , Xiaofei Guo , Liangliang Shang , Fei Wang , Peiwen Wu

In this work we present the late-time behaviour of the Universe in the context of Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet gravitational theory. The theory involves a scalar field, which represents low-effective quantum corrections, assisted by a function…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-04-19 S. A. Venikoudis , K. V. Fasoulakos , F. P. Fronimos

The accelerated expansion of the universe has been widely confirmed, posing challenges to the standard $\Lambda$CDM model, particularly the cosmological coincidence problem. This has motivated the exploration of modified gravity theories,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-01-03 Gaurav N. Gadbail , Sanjay Mandal , P. K. Sahoo , Kazuharu Bamba

Cosmological scalar fields coupled to the Standard Model drive temporal variations in the fundamental constants that grow with redshift, positioning the early Universe as a powerful tool to study such models. We investigate the dynamics and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-08-04 Masha Baryakhtar , Olivier Simon , Zachary J. Weiner

There are a number of different phenomena in the early universe that have to be studied numerically with lattice simulations. This paper presents a graphics processing unit (GPU) accelerated Python program called PyCOOL that solves the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 Jani Sainio

In a recent paper we showed that a quintessence scalar field plus a dissipative matter fluid can drive late cosmic accelerated expansion and simultaneously solve the coincidence problem [1]. In this brief report we extend this result to the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Luis P. Chimento , Alejandro S. Jakubi , Diego Pavon

The standard cold dark matter cosmological model, while successful in explaining the observed large scale structure of the Universe, tends to overpredict structure on small scales. It has been proposed this problem may be alleviated in a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-03-21 Nicole F. Bell , Ahmad J. Galea , Raymond R. Volkas

Decaying dark matter models generically modify the equation of state around the time of dark matter decay, and this in turn modifies the expansion rate of the Universe through the Friedmann equation. Thus, a priori, these models could solve…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-07-04 Andreas Nygaard , Emil Brinch Holm , Thomas Tram , Steen Hannestad

I describe a new class of quintessence+CDM models in which late time scalar field oscillations can give rise to both quintessence and cold dark matter. Additionally, a versatile ansatz for the luminosity distance is used to reconstruct the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Varun Sahni

The purpose of this work is to use a renormalized quantum scalar field to investigate very early cosmology, in the Planck era immediately following the big bang. Renormalization effects make the field potential dependent on length scale,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-07-16 Kerson Huang , Hwee-Boon Low , Roh-Suan Tung

In the era of precision cosmology, the cosmological constant $\Lambda$ gives quite an accurate description of the evolution of the Universe, but it is still plagued with the fine-tuning problem and the cosmic coincidence problem. In this…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-04-27 Srijita Sinha , Narayan Banerjee

A general equation of state is used to model unified dark matter and dark energy (dark fluid), and it has been proved that this model is equivalent to a single fluid with time-dependent bulk viscosity. In this paper, we investigate scalar…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-01-31 Xu Dou , Xin-He Meng

We solve analytically and numerically the generalized Einstein equations in scalar-tensor cosmologies to obtain the evolution of dark energy and matter linear perturbations. We compare our results with the corresponding results for…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-05-25 J. C. Bueno Sanchez , L. Perivolaropoulos

We study the evolution of cosmological perturbations, using a hybrid approximation scheme which upgrades the weak-field limit of Einstein's field equations to account for post-Newtonian scalar and vector metric perturbations and for…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Carmelita Carbone , Sabino Matarrese

We perform a full investigation on dynamics of a new dark energy model in which the four-derivative of a non-canonical scalar field (tachyon) is non-minimally coupled to the vector torsion. Our analysis is done in the framework of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-23 Behnaz Fazlpour , Ali Banijamali

We present a numerical code to simulate maps of Galactic emission in intensity and polarization at microwave frequencies, aiding in the design of Cosmic Microwave Background experiments. This Python code builds on existing efforts to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-06-21 Ben Thorne , Jo Dunkley , David Alonso , Sigurd Naess