Strongly Coupled Chameleon Fields: New Horizons in Scalar Field Theory

2006/06/30 by David F. Mota, Douglas J. Shaw · 11 citations
Mathematics · Physics and Astronomy · #Classical field theory #Classical mechanics #Cosmology and Gravitation Theories #Dark Matter and Cosmic Phenomena #Field (mathematics) #Field theory (psychology) #Geometry #Gravitation #Mathematical physics #Mathematics #Nonlinear system #Physics #Quantum Electrodynamics and Casimir Effect #Quantum electrodynamics #Quantum mechanics #Scalar (mathematics) #Scalar field #Scalar theories of gravitation #Theoretical physics #astro-ph #gr-qc #hep-ph #hep-th

paper · pdf · doi:10.1103/physrevlett.97.151102

published as Phys.Rev.Lett.97:151102,2006 · 4 pages, 3 figs. Typos corrected. Comments added. Phys. Rev. Lett. in print

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Abstract

We show that, as a result of nonlinear self-interactions, scalar field theories that couple to matter much more strongly than gravity are not only viable but could well be detected by a number of future experiments provided that they are properly designed to do so.

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