Direct couplings of mimetic dark matter and their cosmological effects

• 来源期刊: 中国物理C（英文版）
• 年，卷（期）: 2018,（1）
• 页码范围: 145-150
• 页数: 6页
• 语种: 英文
• DOI: 10.1088/1674-1137/42/1/015101

摘要

The original mimetic model was proposed to take the role of dark matter.In this paper we consider possible direct interactions of mimetic dark matter with other matter in the universe,especially standard model particles such as baryons and photons.By imposing shift symmetry,the mimetic dark matter field can only have derivative couplings.We discuss the possibilities of generating baryon number asymmetry and cosmic birefringence in the universe based on the derivative couplings of mimetic dark matter to baryons and photons.