Forecasting Coupled Dark Energy Parameters with the One-Loop Galaxy Power Spectrum

Abstract

We forecast constraints on the parameters of the coupled dark energy model using DESI and Euclid data with the one-loop galaxy power spectrum. We investigate the distinguishability of our model from the zero-coupling scenario at the $1σ$ level and explore how the parameter constraints depend on the fiducial coupling $β_{\rm fid}$, the fixed potential slope parameter $ν$, the maximum wavenumber $k_{\max}$, and different prior choices. We find that the inclusion of mildly non-linear scales improves the constraints on the coupling by roughly a factor of five. Then, we address the question of which is the minimum value of $β$ that can be distinguished from zero at $1σ$. We find that for our reference case $k_{\rm max}=0.2 h/$Mpc, $β=0.15$ lies roughly $1σ$ above zero. In the most optimistic case with $k_{\rm max}=0.3 h/$Mpc and including a Planck prior on $Ω_{m0}$, this value can be reduced to $0.05$. These values are substantially larger than the current constraints on $β$, but the latter have been obtained assuming $β$ to be constant from at least the decoupling epoch to today, while we only employ late-time data. We conclude therefore that only models that allow for time-varying couplings can be detected with late-time datasets.