Dark matter and dark energy from gravitational symmetry breaking

A. Füzfa, J.-M. Alimi

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Abstract

We build a mechanism of gravitational symmetry breaking (GSB) of a global U(1) symmetry based on the relaxation of the equivalence principle due to the mass variation of pseudo Nambu-Goldstone dark matter (DM) particles. This GSB process is described by the modified cosmological convergence mechanism of the Abnormally Weighting Energy (AWE) Hypothesis previously introduced by the authors. Several remarkable constraints from the Hubble diagram of faraway supernovae are derived, notably on the explicit and gravitational symmetry breaking energy scales of the model. We then briefly present some consequences on neutrino masses when this mechanism is applied to the particular case of the breaking of lepton number symmetry.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationAIP Conference Proceedings
Pages854-865
Number of pages12
Volume1241
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 1 Jan 2010

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