Einstein Yang-Mills Higgs dark energy revisited
  Inspired in the Standard Model of Elementary Particles, the Einstein
Yang-Mills Higgs action with the Higgs field in the SU(2) representation was
proposed in Class. Quantum Grav. 32 (2015) 045002 as the element responsible
for the dark energy phenomenon. We revisit this action emphasizing in a very
important aspect not sufficiently explored in the original work and that
substantially changes its conclusions. This aspect is the role that the
Yang-Mills Higgs interaction plays at fixing the gauge for the Higgs field, in
order to sustain a homogeneous and isotropic background, and at driving the
late accelerated expansion of the Universe by moving the Higgs field away of
the minimum of its potential and holding it towards an asymptotic finite value.
We analyse the dynamical behaviour of this system and supplement this analysis
with a numerical solution whose initial conditions are in agreement with the
current observed values for the density parameters. This scenario represents a
step towards a successful merging of cosmology and well-tested particle physics
phenomenology.
