Shan--Chen interacting vacuum cosmology

Abstract

In this paper, we introduce a novel class of interacting vacuum models, based on recasting the equation of state originally developed in the context of lattice kinetic theory by Shan \& Chen as the coupling between the vacuum and cold dark matter (CDM). This coupling allows the vacuum to evolve and is nonlinear around a characteristic energy scale ${\rho }_{\ast }$, changing into a linear coupling with a typical power law evolution at scales much lower and much higher than ${\rho }_{\ast }$. Focusing on the simplest sub-class of models where the interaction consists only of an energy exchange and the CDM remains geodesic, we first illustrate the various possible models that can arise from the Shan--Chen coupling, with several different behaviours at both early and late times depending on the values of the model parameters selected. We then place the first observational constraints on this Shan--Chen interacting vacuum scenario, performing an MCMC analysis to find those values of the model and cosmological parameters which are favoured by observational data. We focus on models where the nonlinearity of the coupling is relevant at late times, choosing for the reference energy scale ${\rho }_{\ast }$, the critical energy density in $\Lambda$CDM. We show that the observational data we use are compatible with a wide range of models which result in different cosmologies. However, we also show that $\Lambda$CDM is preferred over all of the Shan--Chen interacting vacuum models that we study, and comment on the inability of these models to relax the $H_0$ and ${\sigma }_8$ tensions.

arXiv comment14 pages, 11 figures. Results and discussion updated to match version published in MNRAS. Short appendix with extra results added

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