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Proca-stinated cosmology. Part II. Matter, halo, and lensing statistics in the vector Galileon

Becker, Christoph; Eggemeier, Alexander; Davies, Christopher T.; Li, Baojiu

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Christoph Becker

Alexander Eggemeier



Abstract

The generalised Proca (GP) theory is a modified gravity model in which the acceleration of the cosmic expansion rate can be explained by self interactions of a cosmological vector field. In this paper we study a particular sub-class of the GP theory, with up to cubic order Lagrangian, known as the cubic vector Galileon (cvG) model. This model is similar to the cubic scalar Galileon (csG) in many aspects, including a fifth force and the Vainshtein screening mechanism, but with the additional flexibility that the strength of the fifth force depends on an extra parameter — interpolating between zero and the full strength of the csG model — while the background expansion history is independent of this parameter. It offers an interesting alternative to ΛCDM in explaining the cosmic acceleration, as well as a solution to the tension between early- and late-time measurements of the Hubble constant H0. To identify the best ways to test this model, in this paper we conduct a comprehensive study of the phenomenology of this model in the nonlinear regime of large-scale structure formation, using a suite of N-body simulations run with the modified gravity code ECOSMOG. By inspecting thirteen statistics of the dark matter field, dark matter haloes and weak lensing maps, we find that the fifth force in this model can have particularly significant effects on the large-scale velocity field and lensing potential at late times, which suggest that redshift-space distortions and weak lensing can place strong constraints on it.

Citation

Becker, C., Eggemeier, A., Davies, C. T., & Li, B. (2021). Proca-stinated cosmology. Part II. Matter, halo, and lensing statistics in the vector Galileon. Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, 2021(06), Article 014. https://doi.org/10.1088/1475-7516/2021/06/014

Journal Article Type Article
Acceptance Date May 20, 2021
Online Publication Date Jun 8, 2021
Publication Date 2021-06
Deposit Date Aug 25, 2021
Publicly Available Date Mar 28, 2024
Journal Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics
Publisher IOP Publishing
Peer Reviewed Peer Reviewed
Volume 2021
Issue 06
Article Number 014
DOI https://doi.org/10.1088/1475-7516/2021/06/014

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