A Laboratory Search for Dark Energy
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
2010-02-24 v2 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Abstract
The discovery of the accelerating universe indicates strongly the presence of a scalar field which is not only expected to solve today's version of the cosmological constant problem, or the fine-tuning and the coincidence problems, but also provides a way to understand dark energy. It has also been shown that Jordan's scalar-tensor theory is now going to be re-discovered in the new lights. In this letter we suggest a way to search for the extremely light scalar field by means of a laboratory experiment on the low-energy photon-photon interactions with the quasi-parallel incident beams.
Cite
@article{arxiv.0912.5164,
title = {A Laboratory Search for Dark Energy},
author = {Yasunori Fujii and Kensuke Homma},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0912.5164},
year = {2010}
}
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10 pages, 2 figures