Published October 15, 2007
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Journal article
Degravitation of the cosmological constant and graviton width
Creators
- 1. Center for Cosmology and Particle Physics, Department of Physics, New York University, New York, New York 10003 (United States)
- 2. Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, 31 Caroline St. N., Waterloo, ON, N2L 2Y5 (Canada)
Description
We study the possibility of decoupling gravity from the vacuum energy. This is effectively equivalent to promoting Newton's constant to a high-pass filter that degravitates sources of characteristic wavelength larger than a certain macroscopic (super) horizon scale L. We study the underlying physics and the consistency of this phenomenon. In particular, the absence of ghosts, already at the linear level, implies that in any such theory the graviton should either have a mass 1/L, or be a resonance of similar width. This has profound physical implications for the degravitation idea
Additional details
Identifiers
- DOI
- 10.1103/PhysRevD.76.084006;
- arXiv
- arXiv:hep-th/0703027v1;
Publishing Information
- Journal Title
- Physical Review. D, Particles Fields
- Journal Volume
- 76
- Journal Issue
- 8
- Journal Page Range
- p. 084006-084006.22
- ISSN
- 0556-2821
- CODEN
- PRVDAQ
INIS
- Country of Publication
- United States
- Country of Input or Organization
- International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
- INIS RN
- 39052660
- Subject category
- S72: PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS; S71: CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS, GENERAL PHYSICS;
- Descriptors DEI
- COSMOLOGICAL CONSTANT; DECOUPLING; GRAVITATION; GRAVITONS; MESONS; PARTICLE WIDTHS; QUANTUM GRAVITY; REST MASS; WAVELENGTHS
- Descriptors DEC
- BOSONS; ELEMENTARY PARTICLES; FIELD THEORIES; GRAVITATIONAL RADIATION; HADRONS; MASS; MASSLESS PARTICLES; PARTICLE PROPERTIES; POSTULATED PARTICLES; QUANTUM FIELD THEORY; RADIATIONS
Optional Information
- Notes
- (c) 2007 The American Physical Society