Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2005-03-31
Phys.Rev.Lett.95:141302,2005
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
4 pages
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevLett.95.141302
Theories of evolving quintessence are constructed that generically lead to deviations from the w = -1 prediction of non-evolving dark energy. The small mass scale that governs evolution, m_\phi \approx 10^{-33} eV, is radiatively stable, and the ``Why Now?'' problem is solved. These results rest crucially on seesaw cosmology: in broad outline, fundamental physics and cosmology can be understood from only two mass scales, the weak scale, v, and the Planck scale, M. Requiring a scale of dark energy \rho_{DE}^{1/4} governed by v^2/M, and a radiatively stable evolution rate m_\phi given by v^4/M^3, leads to a distinctive form for the equation of state w(z) that follows from a cosine quintessence potential. An explicit hidden axion model is constructed. Dark energy resides in the potential of the axion field which is generated by a new QCD-like force that gets strong at the scale \Lambda \approx v^2/M \approx \rho_{DE}^{1/4}. The evolution rate is given by a second seesaw that leads to the axion mass, m_\phi \approx \Lambda^2/f, with f \approx M.
Hall Lawrence J.
Nomura Yasunori
Oliver Steven J.
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