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Sequestering the standard model vacuum energy

Kaloper, Nemanja; Padilla, Antonio

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Nemanja Kaloper



Abstract

We propose a very simple reformulation of general relativity, which completely sequesters from gravity all of the vacuum energy from a matter sector, including all loop corrections and renders all contributions from phase transitions automatically small. The idea is to make the dimensional parameters in the matter sector functionals of the 4-volume element of the Universe. For them to be nonzero, the Universe should be finite in spacetime. If this matter is the standard model of particle physics, our mechanism prevents any of its vacuum energy, classical or quantum, from sourcing the curvature of the Universe. The mechanism is consistent with the large hierarchy between the Planck scale, electroweak scale, and curvature scale, and early Universe cosmology, including inflation. Consequences of our proposal are that the vacuum curvature of an old and large universe is not zero, but very small, that wDE-1 is a transient, and that the Universe will collapse in the future. © 2014 American Physical Society.

Citation

Kaloper, N., & Padilla, A. (2014). Sequestering the standard model vacuum energy. Physical Review Letters, 112(9), Article 091304. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.112.091304

Journal Article Type Article
Acceptance Date Dec 16, 2013
Publication Date Mar 6, 2014
Deposit Date Jul 27, 2016
Publicly Available Date Mar 28, 2024
Journal Physical Review Letters
Print ISSN 0031-9007
Electronic ISSN 1079-7114
Publisher American Physical Society
Peer Reviewed Peer Reviewed
Volume 112
Issue 9
Article Number 091304
DOI https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.112.091304
Public URL https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/725588
Publisher URL http://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.112.091304

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