Inflation and late time acceleration designed by stueckelberg massive photon

Özgür Akarsu; Metin Arık; Nihan Katırcı

doi:10.1007/s10701-016-0059-y

Inflation and late time acceleration designed by stueckelberg massive photon

Özgür Akarsu, Metin Arık, Nihan Katırcı^*

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Department of Physics Engineering

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Abstract

We present a mini review of the Stueckelberg mechanism, which was proposed to make the abelian gauge theories massive as an alternative to Higgs mechanism, within the framework of Minkowski as well as curved spacetimes. The higher the scale the tighter the bounds on the photon mass, which might be gained via the Stueckelberg mechanism, may be signalling that even an extremely small mass of the photon which cannot be measured directly could have far reaching effects in cosmology. We present a cosmological model where Stueckelberg fields, which consist of both scalar and vector fields, are non-minimally coupled to gravity and the universe could go through a decelerating expansion phase sandwiched by two different accelerated expansion phases. We discuss also the possible anisotropic extensions of the model.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	769-796
Number of pages	28
Journal	Foundations of Physics
Volume	47
Issue number	6
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/s10701-016-0059-y
Publication status	Published - 7 Jan 2017

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We thank Dieter Van den Bleeken for his useful comments. The authors further thank to the anonymous referee as well as Alessandro D.A.M. Spallicci for the helpful and constructive comments that greatly contributed to improving the final version of the paper. Ö.A. acknowledges the support by the Science Academy in scheme of the Distinguished Young Scientist Award (BAGEP). Ö.A. acknowledges further the financial support he received from, and hospitality of the Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP), where parts of this work were carried out. N. K. acknowledges the support she has been receiving from Boğaziçi University Scientific Research Fund with BAP project no: 7128 while this research was carrying out. N.K. acknowledges also the post-doctoral research support she is receiving from the İstanbul Technical University. Acknowledgements We thank Dieter Van den Bleeken for his useful comments. The authors further thank to the anonymous referee as well as Alessandro D.A.M. Spallicci for the helpful and constructive comments that greatly contributed to improving the final version of the paper. Ö.A. acknowledges the support by the Science Academy in scheme of the Distinguished Young Scientist Award (BAGEP). Ö.A. acknowledges further the financial support he received from, and hospitality of the Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP), where parts of this work were carried out. N. K. acknowledges the support she has been receiving from Bog˘aziçi University Scientific Research Fund with BAP project no: 7128 while this research was carrying out. N.K. acknowledges also the post-doctoral research support she is receiving from the ˙stanbul Technical University.

Funders	Funder number
Bog˘aziçi University Scientific Research Fund	7128
Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics
Boğaziçi Üniversitesi
Istanbul Teknik Üniversitesi
Bilim Akademisi

Keywords

Dark energy
Inflation
Modified gravity
Stueckelberg mechanism

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