CLARE BURRAGE Clare.Burrage@nottingham.ac.uk
Professor of Physics
Tests of chameleon gravity
Burrage, Clare; Sakstein, Jeremy
Authors
Jeremy Sakstein
Abstract
Theories of modified gravity, where light scalars with non-trivial self-interactions and non-minimal couplings to matter—chameleon and symmetron theories—dynamically suppress deviations from general relativity in the solar system. On other scales, the environmental nature of the screening means that such scalars may be relevant. The highly-nonlinear nature of screening mechanisms means that they evade classical fifth-force searches, and there has been an intense effort towards designing new and novel tests to probe them, both in the laboratory and using astrophysical objects, and by reinterpreting existing datasets. The results of these searches are often presented using different parametrizations, which can make it difficult to compare constraints coming from different probes. The purpose of this review is to summarize the present state-of-the-art searches for screened scalars coupled to matter, and to translate the current bounds into a single parametrization to survey the state of the models. Presently, commonly studied chameleon models are well-constrained but less commonly studied models have large regions of parameter space that are still viable. Symmetron models are constrained well by astrophysical and laboratory tests, but there is a desert separating the two scales where the model is unconstrained. The coupling of chameleons to photons is tightly constrained but the symmetron coupling has yet to be explored. We also summarize the current bounds on f(R) models that exhibit the chameleon mechanism (Hu and Sawicki models). The simplest of these are well constrained by astrophysical probes, but there are currently few reported bounds for theories with higher powers of R. The review ends by discussing the future prospects for constraining screened modified gravity models further using upcoming and planned experiments.
Citation
Burrage, C., & Sakstein, J. (2018). Tests of chameleon gravity. Living Reviews in Relativity, 21, https://doi.org/10.1007/s41114-018-0011-x
Journal Article Type | Article |
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Acceptance Date | Jan 30, 2018 |
Online Publication Date | Mar 16, 2018 |
Publication Date | Dec 1, 2018 |
Deposit Date | Apr 13, 2018 |
Publicly Available Date | Mar 29, 2024 |
Journal | Living Reviews in Relativity |
Print ISSN | 1433-8351 |
Electronic ISSN | 2367-3613 |
Publisher | Springer Verlag |
Peer Reviewed | Peer Reviewed |
Volume | 21 |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1007/s41114-018-0011-x |
Public URL | https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/950940 |
Publisher URL | https://doi.org/10.1007/s41114-018-0011-x |
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