Interacting vacuum energy in the dark sector

Journal Article · Thu Mar 26 00:00:00 EDT 2015 · AIP Conference Proceedings

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4913329· OSTI ID:22391028

Chimento, L. P. ^[1]; Carneiro, S. ^[2]

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1. Departamento de Física, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, Universidad de Buenos Aires and IFIBA, CONICET, Cuidad Universitaria, Buenos Aires 1428 (Argentina)
2. Instituto de Física, Uníversídade Federal da Bahia, 40210-340, Salvador, BA (Brazil)

We analyse three cosmological scenarios with interaction in the dark sector, which are particular cases of a general expression for the energy flux from vacuum to matter. In the first case the interaction leads to a transition from an unstable de Sitter phase to a radiation dominated universe, avoiding in this way the initial singularity. In the second case the interaction gives rise to a slow-roll power-law inflation. Finally, the third scenario is a concordance model for the late-time universe, with the vacuum term decaying into cold dark matter. We identify the physics behind these forms of interaction and show that they can be described as particular types of the modified Chaplygin gas.

• OSTI ID: 22391028
• Journal Information: AIP Conference Proceedings, Vol. 1647, Issue 1; Conference: Conference on Cosmology and Gravitation in the Southern Cone, Valparaiso (Chile), 27-31 May 2013; Other Information: (c) 2015 AIP Publishing LLC; Country of input: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA); ISSN 0094-243X
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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