Vacuum energy and the cosmological constant
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2015-07-09 v1 Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract
The accelerating expansion of the Universe points to a small positive value for the cosmological constant or vacuum energy density. We discuss recent ideas that the cosmological constant plus LHC results might hint at critical phenomena near the Planck scale.
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@article{arxiv.1503.05483,
title = {Vacuum energy and the cosmological constant},
author = {Steven D. Bass},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1503.05483},
year = {2015}
}
Comments
15 pages, Contributed paper to the Special Issue "Fundamental Constants in Physics and Their Time Variation" (Modern Physics Letters A, Guest Editor Joan Sol\`a)