and cosmology scalar field dark matter is a classical, minimally coupled, scalar field postulated to account for the inferred dark matter. The universe...

cold dark matter is a hypothetical form of cold dark matter proposed to solve the cuspy halo problem. It would consist of extremely light scalar particles...

bosons Dark galaxy – A hypothesized galaxy with no, or very few, stars Scalar field dark matter – Classical, minimally coupled, scalar field postulated...

Scalar field dark matter Weakly interacting massive particles Weakly interacting slender particles Cassé, M.; Fayet, P. (4–9 July 2005). Light Dark Matter...

space, while scalar fields can vary. Yet other possibilities are interacting dark energy (see the section Dark energy § Theories of dark energy) an observational...

needed] Ultralight axion (ULA) with m ~ 10−22 eV/c2 is a kind of scalar field dark matter that seems to solve the small scale problems of CDM. A single ULA...

of Regge poles in Regge theory. A counterpart to odderons. Branons, scalar fields predicted in brane world models. Composite Higgs, models that consider...

understand the nature of the universe, including galaxy formation, dark matter and dark energy. The simulation included many physical processes which are...

leptons), which are believed to be the fundamental components of matter, or scalar fields, like the Higgs particles, which are used to introduced mass in...

postulates the existence of a vector field, while elevating the three constants of the theory to scalar fields. In the weak-field approximation, STVG produces...

In theoretical physics, a scalar–tensor theory is a field theory that includes both a scalar field and a tensor field to represent a certain interaction...

the hypothesis through scalar field models instead, as is done in other alternative approaches to dark energy and dark matter. Arbey, Alexandre (2005)...

spin. Scalar bosons are the subset of bosons with zero-valued spin. The name scalar boson arises from quantum field theory, which demands that fields of...

distinguished from quintessence which has w ≠ − 1 {\displaystyle w\neq -1} . A scalar field ϕ {\displaystyle \phi } can be viewed as a sort of perfect fluid with...

the Einstein field equations (EFE; also known as Einstein's equations) relate the geometry of spacetime to the distribution of matter within it. The...

previously has been limited to actively accreting black holes. Scalar field dark matter Edge, A. C.; Smith, G. P.; Sand, D. J.; Treu, T.; Ebeling, H.;...

the following ingredients: A unit vector field; A dynamical scalar field; A nondynamical scalar field; A matter Lagrangian constructed using an alternate...

The Lambda-CDM, Lambda cold dark matter, or ΛCDM model is a mathematical model of the Big Bang theory with three major components: a cosmological constant...

Princeton University proposed the first dynamical dark energy scalar field, or quintessence, model. Dark energy is the leading candidate for the mechanism...

}^{a}} and B μ {\displaystyle B_{\mu }} and the scalar field φ {\displaystyle \varphi } . The scalar potential is given by V ( φ ) = − μ 2 φ † φ + λ (...

invoking dark matter. Originated by Jacob Bekenstein in 2004, it incorporates various dynamical and non-dynamical tensor fields, vector fields and scalar fields...

pressure. As a result, dark matter begins to collapse into a complex network of dark matter halos well before ordinary matter, which is impeded by pressure...

universal time coordinate acts with matter and non-gravitational fields to generate a scalar field. This scalar field acts together with all the rest to...

real scalar field. A similar process can be done for other types of fields, including the complex scalar field, the vector field, and the Dirac field, as...

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matter in the universe. The four possible types of matter are known as cold dark matter (CDM), warm dark matter, hot dark matter, and baryonic matter...

objects through the external field effect, which is unique to MOND. Unsolved problem in physics: What is the nature of dark matter? Is it a particle, or do...

mixing is common in the phenomenology of dark photons. More general kinetic terms can also occur in scalar field theories in the form of non-linear sigma...

In physics, quintessence is a hypothetical form of dark energy, more precisely a scalar field minimally coupled to gravity, postulated as an explanation...

energy which varies in time (due to a portion of it being caused by a scalar field in the early universe) can solve the crisis in cosmology. Upcoming galaxy...