Consequences of fine-tuning for fifth force searches

Blinov, Nikita; Ellis, Sebastian A.  R.; Hook, Anson

doi:10.1007/jhep11(2018)029

Title: Consequences of fine-tuning for fifth force searches

Journal Article · 06 November 2018 · Journal of High Energy Physics (Online)

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/jhep11(2018)029 · OSTI ID:1490623

Blinov, Nikita ^[1]; Ellis, Sebastian A. R. ^[1]; Hook, Anson ^[2]

SLAC National Accelerator Lab., Menlo Park, CA (United States)
Univ. of Maryland, College Park, MD (United States)

Light bosonic fields mediate long range forces between objects. If these fields have self-interactions, i.e., non-quadratic terms in the potential, the experimental constraints on such forces can be drastically altered due to a screening (chameleon) or enhancement effect. We explore how technically natural values for such self-interaction coupling constants modify the existing constraints. We point out that assuming the existence of these natural interactions leads to new constraints, contrary to the usual expectation that screening leads to gaps in coverage. We discuss how screening can turn fundamentally equivalence principle (EP)-preserving forces into EP-violating ones. This means that when natural screening is present, searches for EP violation can be used to constrain EP-preserving forces. We show how this effect enables the recently discovered stellar triple system PSR J0337+1715 to place a powerful constraint on EP-preserving fifth forces. Finally, we demonstrate that technically natural cubic self-interactions modify the vacuum structure of the scalar potential, leading to new constraints from spontaneous and induced vacuum decay.

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Research Organization:: SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (SLAC), Menlo Park, CA (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE

Grant/Contract Number:: AC02-76SF00515

OSTI ID:: 1490623

Report Number(s):: SLAC-PUB--17311; PII: 9336

Journal Information:: Journal of High Energy Physics (Online), Journal Name: Journal of High Energy Physics (Online) Journal Issue: 11 Vol. 2018; ISSN 1029-8479

Publisher:: Springer BerlinCopyright Statement

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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