Radiative screening of fifth forces

Burrage, Clare; Copeland, Edmund J.; Millington, Peter

Abstract

© 2016 American Physical Society. 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.

Citation

Burrage, C., Copeland, E. J., & Millington, P. (2016). Radiative screening of fifth forces. Physical Review Letters, 117(21), Article 211102. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.117.211102

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Acceptance Date: Oct 10, 2016
• Online Publication Date: Nov 16, 2016
• Publication Date: Nov 16, 2016
• Deposit Date: Jan 3, 2017
• Publicly Available Date: Jan 3, 2017
• Journal: Physical Review Letters
• Print ISSN: 0031-9007
• Electronic ISSN: 1079-7114
• Publisher: American Physical Society
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 117
• Issue: 21
• Article Number: 211102
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.117.211102
• Public URL: https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/828234
• Publisher URL: http://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.117.211102
• Additional Information: ©2016 American Physical Society