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Vacuum Cherenkov radiation and bremsstrahlung from disformal couplings

van de Bruck, Carsten; Burrage, Clare; Morrice, Jack

Authors

Carsten van de Bruck

Jack Morrice



Abstract

The simplest way to modify gravity is to extend the gravitational sector to include an additional scalar degree of freedom. The most general metric that can be built in such a theory includes disformal terms, so that standard model fields move on a metric which is the sum of the space time metric and a tensor constructed from first derivatives of the scalar. In such a theory gravitational waves and photons can propagate at different speeds, and these can in turn be different from the maximum speed limit for matter particles. In this work we show that disformal couplings can cause charged particles to emit Cherenkov radiation and bremsstrahlung apparently in vacuum, depending on the background evolution of the scalar field. We discuss the implications of this for observations of cosmic rays, and the constraints that arise for models of dark energy with disformal couplings.

Citation

van de Bruck, C., Burrage, C., & Morrice, J. (2016). Vacuum Cherenkov radiation and bremsstrahlung from disformal couplings. Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, 2016(8), Article 003. https://doi.org/10.1088/1475-7516/2016/08/003

Journal Article Type Article
Acceptance Date Jul 21, 2016
Publication Date Aug 2, 2016
Deposit Date Apr 21, 2017
Publicly Available Date Mar 29, 2024
Journal Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics
Electronic ISSN 1475-7516
Publisher IOP Publishing
Peer Reviewed Peer Reviewed
Volume 2016
Issue 8
Article Number 003
DOI https://doi.org/10.1088/1475-7516/2016/08/003
Public URL https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/806976
Publisher URL http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1475-7516/2016/08/003/meta

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