A natural cosmological constant from chameleons

DOI10.1016/J.PHYSLETB.2015.05.066MaRDI QIDQ2399015zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Amanda Weltman, Horatiu Nastase

Publication date 21 August 2017

Published in Physics Letters B (Search for Journal in Brave)

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1302.1748

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Relativistic cosmology (83F05) Observational and experimental questions in relativity and gravitational theory (83B05)

Abstract: We present a simple model where the effective cosmological constant appears from chameleon scalar fields. For a Kachru-Kallosh-Linde-Trivedi (KKLT)-inspired form of the potential and a particular chameleon coupling to the local density, patches of approximately constant scalar field potential cluster around regions of matter with density above a certain value, generating the effect of a cosmological constant on large scales. This construction addresses both the cosmological constant problem (why $Lambda$ is so small, yet nonzero) and the coincidence problem (why $Lambda$ is comparable to the matter density now).

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