The shape dependence of chameleon screening

Burrage, Clare, Copeland, Edmund J., Moss, Adam and Stevenson, James A. (2018) The shape dependence of chameleon screening. Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, 2018 (1). 056-056. ISSN 1475-7516

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Abstract

Chameleon scalar fields can screen their associated fifth forces from detection by changing their mass with the local density. These models are an archetypal example of a screening mechanism, and have become an important target for both cosmological surveys and terrestrial experiments. In particular there has been much recent interest in searching for chameleon fifth forces in the laboratory. It is known that the chameleon force is less screened around non-spherical sources, but only the field profiles around a few simple shapes are known analytically. In this work we introduce a numerical code that solves for the chameleon field around arbitrary shapes with azimuthal symmetry placed in a spherical vacuum chamber. We find that deviations from spherical symmetry can increase the chameleon acceleration experienced by a test particle, and that the least screened objects are those which minimize some internal dimension. For the shapes considered in this work, keeping the mass, density and background environment fixed, the accelerations due to the source varied by a factor of ~ 3.

Item Type: Article
RIS ID: https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/907601
Keywords: dark energy experiments, dark energy theory, modified gravity
Schools/Departments: University of Nottingham, UK > Faculty of Science > School of Physics and Astronomy
Identification Number: https://doi.org/10.1088/1475-7516/2018/01/056
Depositing User: Eprints, Support
Date Deposited: 28 Feb 2018 12:48
Last Modified: 04 May 2020 19:28
URI: https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/id/eprint/50077

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