Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Scientific paper
2007-09-13
Phys.Rev.D76:124034,2007
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Revtex, 39 pages, 15 figures
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevD.76.124034
The best laboratory constraints on strongly coupled chameleon fields come not from tests of gravity per se but from precision measurements of the Casimir force. The chameleonic force between two nearby bodies is more akin to a Casimir-like force than a gravitational one: The chameleon force behaves as an inverse power of the distance of separation between the surfaces of two bodies, just as the Casimir force does. Additionally, experimental tests of gravity often employ a thin metallic sheet to shield electrostatic forces, however this sheet mask any detectable signal due to the presence of a strongly coupled chameleon field. As a result of this shielding, experiments that are designed to specifically test the behaviour of gravity are often unable to place any constraint on chameleon fields with a strong coupling to matter. Casimir force measurements do not employ a physical electrostatic shield and as such are able to put tighter constraints on the properties of chameleons fields with a strong matter coupling than tests of gravity. Motivated by this, we perform a full investigation on the possibility of testing chameleon model with both present and future Casimir experiments. We find that present days measurements are not able to detect the chameleon. However, future experiments have a strong possibility of detecting or rule out a whole class of chameleon models.
Brax Philippe
Davis Anne--Christine
Mota David F.
Shaw Douglas
van de Bruck Carsten
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