Dark aspects of massive spinor electrodynamics

TL;DR

This paper explores how massive spinor electrodynamics with torsion can naturally produce dark energy and dark matter, with a small deviation from the standard cosmological model that aligns with observations.

Contribution

It introduces a non-minimal torsion-vector interaction that generates dark energy and matter, providing a novel mechanism within massive spinor electrodynamics.

Findings

The model mimics ΛCDM evolution up to 1/a^3 with an additional 1/a^6 term.

The deviation from ΛCDM is consistent with observational data if very small.

The effective cosmological constant is proportional to the vector field mass squared, potentially linking photon mass to dark energy.

Abstract

We investigate the cosmology of massive spinor electrodynamics when torsion is non-vanishing. A non-minimal interaction is introduced between the torsion and the vector field and the coupling constant between them plays an important role in subsequential cosmology. It is shown that the mass of the vector field and torsion conspire to generate dark energy and pressureless dark matter, and for generic values of the coupling constant, the theory effectively provides an interacting model between them with an additional energy density of the form $\sim 1/a^6$. The evolution equations mimic $\Lambda$CDM behavior up to $1/a^3$ term and the additional term represents a deviation from $\Lambda$CDM. We show that the deviation is compatible with the observational data, if it is very small. We find that the non-minimal interaction is responsible for generating an effective cosmological constant which is directly proportional to the mass squared of the vector field and the mass of the photon within its current observational limit could be the source of the dark energy.