Evidence for a Cosmological Phase Transition on the TeVScale

Abstract

Examining the reverse evolution of the universe from the present, long before reaching Planck density dynamics one expects major modifications from the de-coherent thermal equations of state, suggesting a prior phase that has macroscopic coherence properties. The assumption that the phase transition occurs during the radiation dominated epoch, and that zero-point motions drive the fluctuations associated with this transition, specifies a class of cosmological models in which the cosmic microwave background fluctuation amplitude at last scattering is approximately 10 −5 . Quantum measurability constraints (eg. uncertainly relations) define cosmological scales whose expansion rates can be at most luminal. Examination of these constraints for the observed dark energy density establishes a time interval from the transition to the present. It is shown that the dark energy can consistently be interpreted as due to the vacuum energy of collective gravitational modes which manifest as the zero-point motions of coherent Planck scale mass units prior to the gravitational quantum decoherence of the cosmology. A scenario is suggested that connects microscopic physics to the relevant cosmological scale.

Critical Stability of Three-Body Relativistic Bound States with Zero-Range Interaction

“…Values from [7] (corrected relative to [4]) are indicated by dots. In both cases the three-body binding energy is finite and the Thomas collaps is absent, like it was already found in [3]. However, except for the zero binding limit, solid and dash curves strongly differ from each other.…”

Dark energy and gravity

“…There is extensive literature on different paradigms for solving the cosmological constant problem, like e.g., those based on new symmetries: [206][207][208]; those based on QFT in CST: [209][210][211][212][213][214][215][216]. Nonideal fluids mimicking cosmological constant, like e.g., [217]; Quantum cosmological considerations: [218][219][220][221][222][223].…”

Three-boson relativistic bound states with zero-range two-body interaction

“…[6]). Relativistic three-body calculations with zero-range interaction have been performed in a minimal relativistic model [7] and in the framework of the Light-Front Dynamics [8]. In these works it was concluded that, due to relativistic repulsion, the three-body binding energy remains finite and the Thomas collapse is consequently avoided.…”