Coupled quintessence and vacuum decay

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2007-08-28

arxiv.org/abs/0708.3800v1

Phys.Rev.D77:083516,2008

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

6 pages, 3 figures, LaTeX

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevD.77.083516

We discuss observational consequences of a class of cosmological models characterized by the dilution of pressureless matter attenuated with respect to the usual $a^{-3}$ scaling due to the decay of vacuum energy. We carry out a joint statistical analysis of observational data from the new \emph{gold} sample of 182 SNe Ia, recent estimates of the CMB shift parameter, and BAO measurements from the SDSS to show that such models favor the decay of vacuum only into the dark matter sector, and that the separately conserved baryons cannot be neglected. In order to explore ways to more fundamentally motivated models, we also derive a coupled scalar field version for this general class of vacuum decay scenarios.

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