A Casimir approach to dark energy
High Energy Physics - Theory
2007-05-23 v1
Abstract
We calculate the gravitational self-energy of vacuum quantum field fluctuations using a Casimir approach. We find that the Casimir gravitational self-energy density can account for the measured dark energy density when the SUSY-breaking energy is approximately 5 TeV, in good agreement with current estimates. Furthermore, the Casimir gravitational self-energy appears to provide a quantum mechanism for the well-know geometric relation between the Planck, SUSY and cosmological constant energy scales.
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@article{arxiv.hep-th/0606250,
title = {A Casimir approach to dark energy},
author = {Allan Rosencwaig},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0606250},
year = {2007}
}
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