Published in the Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics and recognised by the judging panel as “a new and remarkable model of how two interacting fields - the axion and the dilaton - could constitute the entire dark sector of the Universe, providing a simple, common origin for dark matter and dark energy with distinctive observational signatures, which if found, would provide a testable alternative to the standard cosmological model.”
The complete list of authors are;
- Mr. Adam Smith - University of Sheffield
- Dr. Maria Mylova - Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe and the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics
- Dr. Philippe Brax - Université Paris-Saclay
- Dr. Carsten van de Bruck - University of Sheffield
- Dr. Clifford Burgess - Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, McMaster University, and the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies
- Dr. Anne-Christine Davis - University of Cambridge
“The nature of dark matter and dark energy is one of the biggest unsolved puzzles in cosmology. Usually they are assumed to be independent from each other. In our model, dark matter and dark energy have a common origin. We hope to shed new light on these components of our universe. Our model makes novel predictions which will be tested with future observations.” Dr. Carsten van de Bruck
Founded in 2014, the Buchalter Cosmology Prize is an annual prize that seeks to stimulate ground-breaking theoretical, observational, or experimental work in cosmology that has the potential to produce a breakthrough advance in understanding. It was created to support the development of new theories, observations, or methods that can help illuminate the puzzle of cosmic expansion from first principles.