Friday, February 8, 2013

1302.1748 (Horatiu Nastase et al.)

A natural cosmological constant from chameleons    [PDF]

Horatiu Nastase, Amanda Weltman
We present a simple model where the effective cosmological constant appears from chameleon scalar fields. For a KKLT-inspired form of the potential and a particular chameleon coupling to the local density, patches of approximately constant scalar field potential cluster around regions of matter with density above a certain value, generating the effect of a cosmological constant on large scales. This construction addresses both the cosmological constant problem (why $\Lambda$ is so small, yet nonzero) and the coincidence problem (why $\Lambda$ is comparable to the matter density now).
View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1302.1748

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