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arxiv hep-th/0404109 v2 pith:DZBS44WL submitted 2004-04-15 hep-th astro-phgr-qc

Accelerated expansion and the Goldstone ghost

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keywords ghostbreakinggoldstonehiddensectoracceleratedalongapprox-1
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A vacuum instability due to a massless ghost in a hidden sector can lead to an effective equation of state for dark energy that changes smoothly from $w=-3/2$ at large redshifts, to $w\approx-1.2$ today, to $w=-1$ in the future. We discuss how this ghost can be the Goldstone boson of Lorentz symmetry breaking, and we find that this breaking in the hidden sector should occur at a scale below $\sim$10 KeV. The normal particles that are produced along with the ghosts are then predominantly neutrinos.

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