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Chameleon screening in cosmic voids

Tamosiunas, Andrius; Briddon, Chad; Burrage, Clare; Cutforth, Alan; Moss, Adam; Vincent, Thomas

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Authors

Andrius Tamosiunas

Chad Briddon

Alan Cutforth

ADAM MOSS ADAM.MOSS@NOTTINGHAM.AC.UK
Associate Professor

Thomas Vincent



Abstract

A key goal in cosmology in the upcoming decade will be to form a better understanding of the accelerated expansion of the Universe. Upcoming surveys, such as the Vera C. Rubin Observatory's 10-year Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST), Euclid and the Square Killometer Array (SKA) will deliver key datasets required to tackle this and other puzzles in contemporary cosmology. With this data, constraints of unprecedented power will be put on different models of dark energy and modified gravity. In this context it is crucial to understand how screening mechanisms, which hide the deviations of these theories from the predictions of general relativity in local experiments, affect structure formation. In this work we approach this problem by using a combination of analytic and numerical methods to describe chameleon screening in the context of cosmic voids. We apply a finite element method (FEM) code, SELCIE, to solve the chameleon equation of motion for a number of void profiles derived from observational data and simulations. The obtained results indicate a complex relationship between the properties of cosmic voids and the size of the chameleon acceleration of a test particle. We find that the fifth force on a test particle in a void is primarily related to the depth and the inner density gradient of the void. For realistic void profiles, the obtained chameleon-to-Newtonian acceleration ratios range between aϕ /aNewt ≈ 10-6– 10-5. However, it should be noted that in unusually deep voids with large inner density gradients, the acceleration ratios can be significantly higher. Similarly, other chameleon models, such as f(R) Hu-Sawicki theory allow for significantly higher acceleration ratios. Given these results, we also discuss the optimal density profiles for detecting the fifth force in the upcoming observational surveys.

Citation

Tamosiunas, A., Briddon, C., Burrage, C., Cutforth, A., Moss, A., & Vincent, T. (2022). Chameleon screening in cosmic voids. Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, 2022(11), Article 056. https://doi.org/10.1088/1475-7516/2022/11/056

Journal Article Type Article
Acceptance Date Nov 15, 2022
Online Publication Date Nov 28, 2022
Publication Date Nov 1, 2022
Deposit Date Jan 5, 2023
Publicly Available Date Jan 5, 2023
Journal Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics
Electronic ISSN 1475-7516
Publisher IOP Publishing
Peer Reviewed Peer Reviewed
Volume 2022
Issue 11
Article Number 056
DOI https://doi.org/10.1088/1475-7516/2022/11/056
Keywords paper, gravity, modified gravity, dark energy theory, cosmic web
Public URL https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/14588182
Publisher URL https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1475-7516/2022/11/056
Additional Information Article Title: Chameleon screening in cosmic voids; Journal Title: Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics; Article Type: paper; Copyright Information: © 2022 The Author(s); Date Received: 2022-07-05; Date Accepted: 2022-11-15; Online publication date: 2022-11-28

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