Mar 21 – 23, 2018
University of Southampton
Europe/London timezone

Interacting vacuum dark energy

Mar 22, 2018, 6:20 PM
20m
University of Southampton

University of Southampton

University of Southampton, Murray Lecture Theatre, Highfield Campus, Southampton, England SO17 1BJ

Speaker

Ms Natalie Hogg

Description

The standard model of cosmology, LCDM, suffers from both theoretical and observational problems that motivate alternative theories of dark energy. One such class of theories are interacting dark energy models. In my talk, I will give an overview of the problems with LCDM and discuss the interacting vacuum scenario, in which the time-varying vacuum energy is allowed to interact with dark matter. I will explain how this interaction can be reconstructed from and constrained by observational data and present some preliminary results.

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