Metastable dark energy

DOI10.1016/J.PHYSLETB.2016.11.044zbMATH Open1369.83110arXiv1611.00428OpenAlexW2548364537MaRDI QIDQ2399112FDOQ2399112

Ricardo G. Landim, E. Abdalla

Publication date: 21 August 2017

Published in: Physics Letters B (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We build a model of metastable dark energy, in which the observed vacuum energy is the value of the scalar potential at the false vacuum. The scalar potential is given by a sum of even self-interactions up to order six. The deviation from the Minkowski vacuum is due to a term suppressed by the Planck scale. The decay time of the metastable vacuum can easily accommodate a mean life time compatible with the age of the universe. The metastable dark energy is also embedded into a model with $SU(2{)}_R$ symmetry. The dark energy doublet and the dark matter doublet naturally interact with each other. A three-body decay of the dark energy particle into (cold and warm) dark matter can be as long as large fraction of the age of the universe, if the mediator is massive enough, the lower bound being at intermediate energy level some orders below the grand unification scale. Such a decay shows a different form of interaction between dark matter and dark energy, and the model opens a new window to investigate the dark sector from the point-of-view of particle physics.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1611.00428

zbMATH Keywords

dark energydark matterparticle physics

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Model quantum field theories (81T10) Relativistic cosmology (83F05) Observational and experimental questions in relativity and gravitational theory (83B05)

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