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14–18 Apr 2014
Palais des Papes, Avignon
Europe/Paris timezone

A new approach to chameleon theories

16 Apr 2014, 18:20
10m
Chambre du Trésorier (Palais des Papes, Avignon)

Chambre du Trésorier

Palais des Papes, Avignon

Speaker

Dr Lucila Kraiselburd (Facultad de Ciencias Astronomicas y Geofisicas-Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Argentina)

Description

Most theories that predict time and/or space variation of fundamental constants also predict violations of the Weak Equivalence Principle (WEP). Khoury and Weltmann proposed the chameleon model in 2004 and claimed that this model avoids experimental bounds on WEP. Mota and Shaw analized the non-linear regime and concluded that only this case predicts no violations of the WEP while the linear and cuasilinear regimes do. We present a contrasting view based on a new calculation of the the two body problem for the chameleon field and show how the force depends on the test body composition.

Primary author

Dr Lucila Kraiselburd (Facultad de Ciencias Astronomicas y Geofisicas-Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Argentina)

Co-authors

Dr Daniel Sudarsky (nstituto de Ciencias Nucleares, UNAM, Mexico) Dr Marcelo Salgado (nstituto de Ciencias Nucleares, UNAM, Mexico) Dr Susana Landau (Departamento de F ́ısica de Buenos Aires, FCEN, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina)

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