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Laboratory constraints on chameleon dark energy and power-law fields

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics 2011-01-28 v1 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology High Energy Physics - Experiment High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

Abstract

We report results from the GammeV Chameleon Afterglow Search---a search for chameleon particles created via photon/chameleon oscillations within a magnetic field. This experiment is sensitive to a wide class of chameleon power-law models and dark energy models not previously explored. These results exclude five orders of magnitude in the coupling of chameleons to photons covering a range of four orders of magnitude in chameleon effective mass and, for individual chameleon models, exclude between 4 and 12 orders of magnitude in chameleon couplings to matter.

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@article{arxiv.1010.0988,
  title  = {Laboratory constraints on chameleon dark energy and power-law fields},
  author = {Jason H. Steffen and Amol Upadhye and Al Baumbaugh and Aaron S. Chou and Peter O. Mazur and Ray Tomlin and Amanda Weltman and William Wester},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1010.0988},
  year   = {2011}
}

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5 pages, Submission to PRL