Scalar field dark matter and dark energy: a hybrid model for the dark sector

Understand

Diverse cosmological and astrophysical observations strongly hint at the presence of dark matter and dark energy in the Universe.

• One of the main goals of Cosmology is to explain the nature of these two components.
• It may well be that both dark matter and dark energy have a common origin.
• In this paper, we develop a model in which the dark sector arises due to an interplay between two interacting scalar fields.