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| Author(s): |
Bernardini, A. E.
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| Affiliation: | [1] Univ Fed Sao Carlos, Dept Fis, BR-13565905 Sao Carlos, SP - Brazil
Total Affiliations: 1
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| Document type: | Journal article |
| Source: | Astroparticle Physics; v. 34, n. 6, p. 431-437, JAN 2011. |
| Web of Science Citations: | 3 |
| Abstract | |
Neutrinos coupled to an underlying scalar field in the scenario for unification of mass varying dark matter and cosmon-like dark energy is examined. In the presence of a tiny component of mass varying neutrinos, the conditions for the present cosmic acceleration and for the stability issue are reproduced. It is assumed that sterile neutrinos behave like mass varying dark matter coupled to mass varying active neutrinos through the seesaw mechanism, in a kind of mixed dark matter sector. The crucial point is that the dark matter mass may also exhibit a dynamical behavior driven by the scalar field. The scalar field mediates the nontrivial coupling between the mixed dark matter and the dark energy responsible for the accelerated expansion of the universe. The equation of state of perturbations reproduce the generalized Chaplygin gas (GCG) cosmology so that all the effective results from the GCG paradigm are maintained, being perturbatively modified by neutrinos. (C) 2010 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. (AU) | |