2014/12/05 by Philippe Brax, Anne-Christine Davis · 2 citations
Mathematics · Physics and Astronomy · #Astrophysics #Black Holes and Theoretical Physics #Casimir effect #Classical mechanics #Cosmology #Cosmology and Gravitation Theories #Curvature #Dark energy #Dilaton #Geometry #Gravitation #Limit (mathematics) #Mathematical analysis #Mathematics #Physics #Quantum Electrodynamics and Casimir Effect #Scalar (mathematics) #Theoretical physics #astro-ph.CO #hep-ph #hep-th
paper · pdf · doi:10.1103/physrevd.91.063503
published as Phys. Rev. D 91, 063503 (2015) · 30 pages, 5 figures
arxiv created 2014/12/05 · openalex publication_date 2015/03/02 · arxiv updated 2015/03/11 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05
We investigate laboratory tests of dark energy theories which modify gravity in a way generalizing the inverse power law chameleon models. We make use of the tomographic description of such theories which captures f(R) models in the large curvature limit, the dilaton and the symmetron. We consider their effects in various experiments where the presence of a new scalar interaction may be uncovered. More precisely, we focus on the Casimir, E"otv"os-Washington and neutron experiments. We show that dilatons, symmetrons and generalized chameleon models are efficiently testable in the laboratory. For generalized chameleons, we revise their status in the light of forthcoming Casimir experiments like CANNEX in Amsterdam and show that they are within reach of detection.