Dynamically avoiding fine-tuning the cosmological constant: the "Relaxed Universe"

Details Dynamically avoiding fine-tuning the cosmological constant: the "Relaxed Universe" Dynamically avoiding fine-tuning the cosmological constant: the "Relaxed Universe"

2010-06-20

arxiv.org/abs/1006.3944v2

JCAP 1012:029,2010

Physics

High Energy Physics

High Energy Physics - Theory

LaTeX, 63 pp, 8 figures. Extended discussion. Version accepted in JCAP

Scientific paper

10.1088/1475-7516/2010/12/029

We demonstrate that there exists a large class of action functionals of the scalar curvature and of the Gauss-Bonnet invariant which are able to relax dynamically a large cosmological constant (CC), whatever it be its starting value in the early universe. Hence, it is possible to understand, without fine-tuning, the very small current value of the CC as compared to its theoretically expected large value in quantum field theory and string theory. In our framework, this relaxation appears as a pure gravitational effect, where no ad hoc scalar fields are needed. The action involves a positive power of a characteristic mass parameter, M, whose value can be, interestingly enough, of the order of a typical particle physics mass of the Standard Model of the strong and electroweak interactions or extensions thereof, including the neutrino mass. The model universe emerging from this scenario (the "Relaxed Universe") falls within the class of the so-called LXCDM models of the cosmic evolution. Therefore, there is a "cosmon" entity X (represented by an effective object, not a field), which in this case is generated by the effective functional and is responsible for the dynamical adjustment of the cosmological constant. This model universe successfully mimics the essential past epochs of the standard (or "concordance") cosmological model (LCDM). Furthermore, it provides interesting clues to the coincidence problem and it may even connect naturally with primordial inflation.

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