Vacuum energy density kicked by the electroweak crossover
Abstract
Using q-theory, we show that the electroweak crossover can generate a remnant vacuum energy density Λ∼Eew8/EPlanck4, with effective electroweak energy scale Eew∼103GeV and reduced Planck-energy scale EPlanck∼1018GeV. The obtained expression for the effective cosmological constant Λ may be a crucial input for the suggested solution by Arkani-Hamed et al. of the triple cosmic coincidence puzzle (why the orders of magnitude of the energy densities of vacuum, matter, and radiation are approximately the same in the present Universe).
- Publication:
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Physical Review D
- Pub Date:
- October 2009
- DOI:
- 10.1103/PhysRevD.80.083001
- arXiv:
- arXiv:0905.1919
- Bibcode:
- 2009PhRvD..80h3001K
- Keywords:
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- 95.36.+x;
- 04.20.Cv;
- 12.15.Ji;
- 98.80.Jk;
- Dark energy;
- Fundamental problems and general formalism;
- Applications of electroweak models to specific processes;
- Mathematical and relativistic aspects of cosmology;
- Astrophysics - Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics;
- General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology;
- High Energy Physics - Phenomenology;
- High Energy Physics - Theory
- E-Print:
- 16 pages