“…If we consider axial vector torsion together with a scalar field φ connected to a local scale factor [16], then the Euler-Lagrange equations not only give the constancy of the gravitational constant but they also link, in laboratory scale, the mass of the scalar field with the Nieh-Yan density and, in cosmic scale of FRW-cosmology, they predict only three kinds of the phenomenological energy density representing mass, radiation and cosmological constant. This article has been prepared to study the role of torsion and the scalar field φ in gravitation, especially, in the presence of a Dirac field in the background of a particular class of Riemann-Cartan geometry of the space-time manifold and also try to study the possible connection of the field φ with dark matter [17,18] and dark radiation [19,20,21,22,23].…”