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Neutrino lump fluid in growing neutrino quintessence

Youness Ayaita^*, Maik Weber, and Christof Wetterich

Institut für Theoretische Physik, Universität Heidelberg, Philosophenweg 16, D-69120 Heidelberg, Germany

^*y.ayaita@thphys.uni-heidelberg.de

Phys. Rev. D 87, 043519 – Published 8 February, 2013

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.87.043519

Abstract

Growing neutrino quintessence addresses the why now problem of dark energy by assuming that the neutrinos are coupled to the dark energy scalar field. The coupling mediates an attractive force between the neutrinos leading to the formation of large neutrino lumps. This work proposes an effective, simplified description of the subsequent cosmological dynamics. We treat neutrino lumps as effective particles and investigate their properties and mutual interactions. The neutrino lump fluid behaves as cold dark matter coupled to dark energy. The methods developed here may find wider applications for fluids of composite objects.

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