Publication Date
2010
Journal or Book Title
CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM GRAVITY
Abstract
Light scalar particles with couplings of sub-gravitational strength, which can generically be called 'dilatons', can produce violations of the equivalence principle. However, in order to understand experimental sensitivities one must know the coupling of these scalars to atomic systems. We report here on a study of the required couplings. We give a general Lagrangian with five independent dilaton parameters and calculate the 'dilaton charge' of atomic systems for each of these. Two combinations are particularly important. One is due to the variations in the nuclear binding energy, with a sensitivity scaling with the atomic number as A−1/3. The other is due to electromagnetism. We compare limits on the dilaton parameters from existing experiments.
Pages
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Volume
27
Issue
20
Recommended Citation
Damour, T and Donoghue, JF, "Phenomenology of the equivalence principle with light scalars" (2010). CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM GRAVITY. 85.
Retrieved from https://scholarworks.umass.edu/physics_faculty_pubs/85
Comments
This is the pre-published version which is collected from arXiv. The published version is at http://iopscience.iop.org/0264-9381/27/20/202001