Hartley Daniel, Käding Christian, Howl Richard, Fuentes Ivette
Faculty of Physics, University of Vienna, Boltzmanngasse 5, 1090 Vienna, Austria.
Technische Universität Wien, Atominstitut, Stadionallee 2, 1020 Vienna, Austria.
Eur Phys J C Part Fields. 2024;84(1):49. doi: 10.1140/epjc/s10052-023-12360-7. Epub 2024 Jan 18.
We propose an experiment based on a Bose-Einstein condensate interferometer for strongly constraining fifth-force models. Additional scalar fields from modified gravity or higher dimensional theories may account for dark energy and the accelerating expansion of the Universe. These theories have led to proposed screening mechanisms to fit within the tight experimental bounds on fifth-force searches. We show that our proposed experiment would greatly improve the existing constraints on these screening models by many orders of magnitude.
我们提出了一个基于玻色-爱因斯坦凝聚体干涉仪的实验,用于严格限制第五种力模型。来自修正引力或高维理论的额外标量场可能解释暗能量以及宇宙的加速膨胀。这些理论催生了一些为符合第五种力搜索的严格实验界限而提出的屏蔽机制。我们表明,我们提出的实验将把对这些屏蔽模型的现有限制提高许多个数量级。