Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2000-05-26
Phys.Rev. D62 (2000) 123510
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
24 pages including 8 figures, final version to be published in Phys.Rev.D
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevD.62.123510
We study the cosmological role of a Tracking Field $\phi$ in Extended Quintessence scenarios (TEQ), where the dynamical vacuum energy driving the acceleration of the universe today is coupled with the Ricci scalar, $R$, with a term of the form $F(\phi)R/2$, where $F(\phi) = 1/8\pi G+\xi(\phi^{2}-\phi_{0}^{2})$. Tracker solutions for these NMC models, with inverse power-law potentials, possess an initial enhancement of the scalar field dynamics, named $R$-boost, caused by the Ricci scalar in the Klein-Gordon equation. During this phase the field performs a "gravitational" slow rolling which we model analytically, with energy density scaling as $(1+z)^{2}$. We evolve linear perturbations in TEQ models assuming Gaussian scale-invariant initial spectrum. We obtain significant changes in the Integrated Sachs Wolfe effect and in the acoustic peaks locations on the Cosmic Microwave Background, as well as in the turnover on the matter power spectrum. All these corrections may assume positive as well as negative values, depending on the sign of the NMC parameter $\xi$. We give analytical formulas describing all these effects. We show that they can be as large as $10 - 30%$ with respect to equivalent cosmological constant and ordinary tracking Quintessence models, respecting all the existing experimental constraints on scalar-tensor theories of gravity. These results demonstrate that the next decade data will provide deep constraints on the nature of the dark energy in the Universe, as well as the structure of the theory of gravity.
Baccigalupi Carlo
Matarrese Sabino
Perrotta Francesca
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