Spin precession as a new window into disformal scalar fields

DOI10.1088/1475-7516/2021/03/001MaRDI QIDQ5025960zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Philippe Brax, Scott Melville, L. K. Wong, A. C. Davis

Publication date 7 February 2022

Published in Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.01213

zbMATH Keywords

dark energy experimentsdark energy theorymodified gravity

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Orbital mechanics (70M20) Spinor and twistor methods applied to problems in quantum theory (81R25) Equations of motion in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C10) Approximation procedures, weak fields in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C25) Dark matter and dark energy (83C56) Relativistic gravitational theories other than Einstein's, including asymmetric field theories (83D05)

Abstract: We launch a first investigation into how a light scalar field coupled both conformally and disformally to matter influences the evolution of spinning point-like bodies. Working directly at the level of the equations of motion, we derive novel spin-orbit and spin-spin effects accurate to leading order in a nonrelativistic and weak-field expansion. Crucially, unlike the spin-independent effects induced by the disformal coupling, which have been shown to vanish in circular binaries due to rotational symmetry, the spin-dependent effects we study here persist even in the limit of zero eccentricity, and so provide a new and qualitatively distinct way of probing these kinds of interactions. To illustrate their potential, we confront our predictions with spin-precession measurements from the Gravity Probe B experiment and find that the resulting constraint improves upon existing bounds from perihelion precession by over 5 orders of magnitude. Our results therefore establish spin effects as a promising window into the disformally coupled dark sector.

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