Radiative Screening of Fifth Forces
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
2016-11-17 v2 Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
High Energy Physics - Theory
Abstract
We describe a symmetron model in which the screening of fifth forces arises at the one-loop level through the Coleman-Weinberg mechanism of spontaneous symmetry breaking. We show that such a theory can avoid current constraints on the existence of fifth forces but still has the potential to give rise to observable deviations from general relativity, which could be seen in cold atom experiments.
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@article{arxiv.1604.06051,
title = {Radiative Screening of Fifth Forces},
author = {Clare Burrage and Edmund J. Copeland and Peter Millington},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1604.06051},
year = {2016}
}
Comments
6 pages, 2 figures, revtex format; to match published version: discussion of first-order thermal phase transitions included, additional constraints taken into account and references expanded