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引力修正的闪光点

Shining Light on Modifications of Gravity

Philippe Brax, Clare Burrage, Anne-Christine Davis

摘要:

引力的许多修正引入了新的标量自由度,在这样的理论中,物质场通常耦合到一个有效度规,这个有效度规既取决于时空的真实度规,也取决于标量场及其导数。标量场对有效度量的贡献可以分为共形和非形式两类。非形式项引入了标量场和其他物质场的能量动量张量之间的梯度耦合,并且不能被第五种力实验所约束,因为这些项的影响在静态非相对论源周围是微不足道的。利用高精度、低能量的光子实验来寻找共形耦合的标量场(称为类轴子粒子)是众所周知的。在这篇文章中,我们表明,这些实验也限制非正式的标量场理论,是特别重要的,因为约束这些耦合与其他实验室实验的困难。

英文摘要:

Many modifications of gravity introduce new scalar degrees of freedom, and in such theories matter fields typically couple to an effective metric that depends on both the true metric of spacetime and on the scalar field and its derivatives. Scalar field contributions to the effective metric can be classified as conformal and disformal. Disformal terms introduce gradient couplings between scalar fields and the energy momentum tensor of other matter fields, and cannot be constrained by fifth force experiments because the effects of these terms are trivial around static non-relativistic sources. The use of high-precision, low-energy photon experiments to search for conformally coupled scalar fields, called axion-like particles, is well known. In this article we show that these experiments are also constraining for disformal scalar field theories, and are particularly important because of the difficulty of constraining these couplings with other laboratory experiments.

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