Gravity of gluonic fluctuations and the value of the cosmological constant

DOI10.1088/1361-6382/AD13C2arXiv2305.04864MaRDI QIDQ6189079FDOQ6189079

Authors: Kris MacKewicz, Craig J. Hogan 

Publication date: 12 January 2024

Published in: Classical and Quantum Gravity (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We analyze the classical linear gravitational effect of idealized pion-like dynamical systems, consisting of light quarks connected by attractive gluonic material with a stress-energy $p=-ho{c}^2$ in one or more dimensions. In one orbit of a system of total mass $M$, quarks of mass $m<<M$ expand apart initially with $v/csim1$, slow due to the gluonic attraction, reach a maximum size $R_{0}simhbar/Mc$, then recollapse. We solve the linearized Einstein equations and derive the effect on freely falling bodies for two systems: a gluonic bubble model where uniform gluonic stress-energy fills a spherical volume bounded by a 2D surface comprising the quarks' rest mass, and a gluonic string model where a thin string connects two pointlike quarks. The bubble model is shown to produce a secular mean outward residual velocity of test particles that lie within its orbit. It is shown that the mean gravitational repulsion of bubble-like virtual-pion vacuum fluctuations agrees with the measured value of the cosmological constant, for a bubble with a radius equal to about twice the pion de Broglie length. These results support the view that the gravity of standard QCD vacuum fluctuations is the main source of cosmic acceleration.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.04864

zbMATH Keywords

cosmological constantQCDvacuum fluctuationslinearized gravity

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Approximation procedures, weak fields in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C25) Methods of quantum field theory in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C47) Relativistic cosmology (83F05)

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