Quintessence Models and the Cosmological Evolution of alpha

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2004-06-01

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0406039v1

Phys.Rev.D70:083503,2004

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

26 pages, 20 eps figures

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevD.70.083503

The cosmological evolution of a quintessence-like scalar field, phi, coupled to matter and gauge fields leads to effective modifications of the coupling constants and particle masses over time. We analyze a class of models where the scalar field potential V(phi) and the couplings to matter B(phi) admit common extremum in phi, as in the Damour-Polyakov ansatz. We find that even for the simplest choices of potentials and B(phi), the observational constraints on delta alpha/alpha coming from quasar absorption spectra, the Oklo phenomenon and Big Bang nucleosynthesis provide complementary constraints on the parameters of the model. We show the evolutionary history of these models in some detail and describe the effects of a varying mass for dark matter.

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