Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Scientific paper
1999-08-31
Phys.Rev.D61:023518,2000
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
5 pages, 4 figures
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevD.61.023518
Scalar fields with inverse power-law effective potentials may provide a negative pressure component to the energy density of the universe today, as required by cosmological observations. In order to be cosmologically relevant today, the scalar field should have a mass $m_\phi = O(10^{-33} {\mathrm eV})$, thus potentially inducing sizable violations of the equivalence principle and space-time variations of the coupling constants. Scalar-tensor theories of gravity provide a framework for accommodating phenomenologically acceptable ultra-light scalar fields. We discuss non-minimally coupled scalar-tensor theories in which the scalar-matter coupling is a dynamical quantity. Two attractor mechanisms are operative at the same time: one towards the tracker solution, which accounts for the accelerated expansion of the Universe, and one towards general relativity, which makes the ultra-light scalar field phenomenologically safe today. As in usual tracker-field models, the late-time behavior is largely independent on the initial conditions. Strong distortions in the cosmic microwave background anisotropy spectra as well as in the matter power spectrum are expected.
Bartolo Nicola
Pietroni Massimo
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