The Stability Issue In Models Of Neutrino Dark Energy by Ole Bjælde with A. Brookfield, C. van de Bruck, S. Hannestad, D. Mota, L. Schrempp, & D. Tocchini-Valentini Wednesday 22-08-07 Cosmo07 Brighton
Mass Varying Neutrinos =MaVaNs Coupling between and a scalar field Conservation of energy Equations of motion Fardon, Nelson & Weiner, 2003
Assuming adiabaticity MaVaNs Mass Varying Neutrinos =MaVaNs NR limit Assuming adiabaticity
MaVaNs MaVaN- candidates Candidate potentials must obey w~-1
MaVaNs Coleman-Weinberg
MaVaNs Power-Law
Cosmological Perturbation Theory Evolution of structures from Big Bang Perturbations grow because of gravity
Stability Dynamics of perturbations governed by General sound speed described by MaVaNs Adiabatic scale
Stability Stable MaVaN model-perturbations driven by Generalising to 3 neutrino generations with a degenerate mass spectrum Takahashi & Tanimoto, 2003
Perturbation Analysis Perturbations Perturbation Analysis Synchronous gauge Friedmann Neutrino-e.o.m.
Results Results: C-W
Results Results: Power
Conclusion MaVaNs can act as dark energy Dynamics of MaVaN-perturbations depend crucially on Instability in cases of steeply growing It is possible to have a stable model! Ridiculeously small growth in neutrino mass