Bulletin of the American Physical Society
APS April Meeting 2024
Wednesday–Saturday, April 3–6, 2024; Sacramento & Virtual
Session KK03: V: Mini-Symposium: Cosmology and Galaxies
11:00 AM–1:00 PM,
Saturday, April 6, 2024
Room: Virtual Room 03
Sponsoring
Unit:
DAP
Chair: Xiaofeng Dong, The University of Chicago
Abstract: KK03.00005 : Physical mechanism that gives rise to cosmic inflation in a finite-sized electron model
12:12 PM–12:24 PM
Presenter:
Bruce M Law
(Kansas State University)
Author:
Bruce M Law
(Kansas State University)
In 2020 the author published the electron Born self-energy (eBse) model for Dark Energy (DE) wherein many features of DE are quantitatively explained by attributing this energy to the electric field energy surrounding a finite-sized electron in the WHIM (Warm-Hot Intergalactic Medium). The current contribution extends the eBse model to very high densities, early in the Universe’s expansion, where electrons and positrons are packed together as close as is physically possible. It is found that this model undergoes a glass transition at a temperature TG = 1.06x1017K caused by the electrons and positrons attaining a maximum packing density given by 1/(2Re)3 where Re is the electron radius. For temperatures T > TG, it is impossible to physically increase the packing density above this maximum; the system falls out of photon-electron-positron (γ-e-e+) chemical equilibrium and the potential energy density remains constant at ψ(TG) = 1.9x1050J/m3. A constant ψ(TG) leads to an accelerated expansion phase, akin to cosmic inflation. For T < TG γ-e-e+ equilibrium is restored where the potential energy density ψ(T) is a plateau potential, in agreement with Planck collaboration expectations. In this model the inflaton scalar field is temperature.
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