Theory of interacting vector dark energy and fluid

by Masroor C. Pookkillath

Thursday 14 Nov 2024, 16:00 → 18:00 Asia/Seoul

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In this work, we study the interaction between dark energy and dark matter, where a massive vector field describes dark energy and dark matter is modelled as a fluid. We present a new interaction term, which affects only perturbations and can give interesting phenomenology. Then we present a general Lagrangian for the interacting vector dark energy with dark matter. For the dark energy, we choose the Proca theory with $G_3$ term to study its phenomenological consequence. For this model, we explore both background and perturbation dynamics. We also present the no-ghost condition for tensor modes, vector modes and scalar modes. Subsequently, we also study the evolution of the overdensities of both baryon and cold dark matter in the high$-k$ limit. We show that the effective gravitational coupling is modified for cold dark matter and baryon. We also choose a simple concrete model and numerically show suppression in the growth of cold dark matter overdensity.