A natural cosmological constant from chameleons
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2015-07-01
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Nastase, Horatiu [UNESP]
Weltman, Amanda
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We present a simple model where the effective cosmological constant appears from chameleon scalar fields. For a Kachru-Kallosh-Linde-Trivedi (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 Λ is so small, yet nonzero) and the coincidence problem (why Λ is comparable to the matter density now).
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Physics Letters, Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics, v. 747, p. 200-204.