Quintessence from Shape Moduli

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2003-07-31

arxiv.org/abs/hep-ph/0307379v1

Phys.Rev. D68 (2003) 125009

Physics

High Energy Physics

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

8 pages, 1 figure

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevD.68.125009

We show that shape moduli in sub-millimeter extra dimensional scenarios, addressing the gauge hierarchy problem, can dominate the energy density of the universe today. In our scenario, the volume of the extra dimensions is stabilized at a sufficiently high scale to avoid conflicts with nucleosynthesis and solar-system precision gravity experiments, while the shape moduli remain light but couple extremely weakly to brane-localized matter and easily avoid these bounds. Nonlocal effects in the bulk of the extra dimension generate a potential for the shape moduli. The potential has the right form and order of magnitude to account for the present day cosmic acceleration, in a way analogous to models of quintessence as a pseudo Nambu-Goldstone boson.

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