Strongly coupled quintessence

D’Amico, Guido; Kaloper, Nemanja; Lawrence, Albion

doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.100.103504

Title: Strongly coupled quintessence

Journal Article · Tue Nov 05 00:00:00 EST 2019 · Physical Review D

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.100.103504· OSTI ID:1573121

; Kaloper, Nemanja; Lawrence, Albion

We present a family of consistent quantum field theories of monodromy quintessence in strong coupling, which can serve as benchmarks in modeling dark energy different from the cosmological constant. These theories have discrete gauge symmetries that can protect them from quantum field theory and quantum gravity corrections, both perturbative and nonperturbative. The strong coupling effects, at scales ≳mm^–1, flatten the potential and activate operators with higher powers of derivatives. The predicted equation of state is close to, but not exactly equal to, –1. Thus testing the model may be within reach of the (near) future programs to explore the nature of dark energy.

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Research Organization:: Brandeis Univ., Waltham, MA (United States); Univ. of California, Davis, CA (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Science (SC)

Grant/Contract Number:: SC0009999; SC0009987

OSTI ID:: 1573121

Alternate ID(s):: OSTI ID: 1801977

Journal Information:: Physical Review D, Journal Name: Physical Review D Vol. 100 Journal Issue: 10; ISSN 2470-0010

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Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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