Effective field theory analysis of the self-interacting chameleon

DOI10.1007/S10714-010-0974-8zbMATH Open1197.83056arXiv0809.3156OpenAlexW1975045788WikidataQ125914116 ScholiaQ125914116MaRDI QIDQ5961932FDOQ5961932

Hillary Sanctuary, Riccardo Sturani

Publication date: 16 September 2010

Published in: General Relativity and Gravitation (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We analyse the phenomenology of a self-interacting scalar field in the context of the chameleon scenario originally proposed by Khoury and Weltman. In the absence of self-interactions, this type of scalar field can mediate long range interactions and simultaneously evade constraints from violation of the weak equivalence principle. By applying to such a scalar field the effective field theory method proposed for Einstein gravity by Goldberger and Rothstein, we give a thorough perturbative evaluation of the importance of non-derivative self-interactions in determining the strength of the chameleon mediated force in the case of orbital motion. The self-interactions are potentially dangerous as they can change the long range behaviour of the field. Nevertheless, we show that they do not lead to any dramatic phenomenological consequence with respect to the linear case and solar system constraints are fulfilled.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0809.3156

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zbMATH Keywords

chameleoneffective field theoryscalar-tensor gravity

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantization of the gravitational field (83C45) Relativistic cosmology (83F05) Path integrals in quantum mechanics (81S40)

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