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A Cosmological Concordance Model with Particle Creation

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A constant-rate creation of dark particles in the late-time FLRW spacetime provides a cosmological model in accordance with precise observational tests. The matter creation backreaction implies in this context a vacuum energy density scaling linearly with the Hubble parameter, which is consistent with the vacuum expectation value of the QCD condensate in a low-energy expanding spacetime. Both the cosmological constant and coincidence problems are alleviated in this scenario. We discuss the cosmological model that arises in this context and present a joint analysis of observations of the first acoustic peak in the cosmic microwave background (CMB) anisotropy spectrum, the Hubble diagram for supernovas of type Ia (SNIa), the distance scale of baryonic acoustic oscillations (BAO) and the distribution of large scale structures (LSS). We show that a good concordance is obtained, albeit with a higher value of the present matter abundance than in the standard model.

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    Strictly speaking, this result is only exact if we neglect the conserved baryons in the balance equations. Since baryons represent only about \(5\,\%\) of the total energy content, this can be considered a good approximation.

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  1. Observatório Nacional, Rio de Janeiro-RJ, Brazil

    J. S. Alcaniz

  2. Instituto de Física, Universidade Federal da Bahia, Salvador, BA, Brazil

    H. A. Borges, S. Carneiro & C. Pigozzo

  3. Departamento de Física, Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo, Vitória-ES, Brazil

    J. C. Fabris & W. Zimdahl

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Alcaniz, J.S., Borges, H.A., Carneiro, S., Fabris, J.C., Pigozzo, C., Zimdahl, W. (2014). A Cosmological Concordance Model with Particle Creation. In: Bičák, J., Ledvinka, T. (eds) Relativity and Gravitation. Springer Proceedings in Physics, vol 157. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-06761-2_46

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