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E-ELT constraints on runaway dilaton scenarios

Martinelli, M., Calabrese, Erminia ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0837-0068 and Martins, C.J.A.P. 2015. E-ELT constraints on runaway dilaton scenarios. Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics 2015 (11) , 030. 10.1088/1475-7516/2015/11/030

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Abstract

We use a combination of simulated cosmological probes and astrophysical tests of the stability of the fine-structure constant α, as expected from the forthcoming European Extremely Large Telescope (E-ELT), to constrain the class of string-inspired runaway dilaton models of Damour, Piazza and Veneziano. We consider three different scenarios for the dark sector couplings in the model and discuss the observational differences between them. We improve previously existing analyses investigating in detail the degeneracies between the parameters ruling the coupling of the dilaton field to the other components of the universe, and studying how the constraints on these parameters change for different fiducial cosmologies. We find that if the couplings are small (e.g., αb = αV ~ 0) these degeneracies strongly affect the constraining power of future data, while if they are sufficiently large (e.g., αb gsim 10−5−αV gsim 0.05, as in agreement with current constraints) the degeneracies can be partially broken. We show that E-ELT will be able to probe some of this additional parameter space.

Item Type: Article
Date Type: Publication
Status: Published
Schools: Physics and Astronomy
Publisher: IOP Publishing
ISSN: 1475-7516
Date of First Compliant Deposit: 4 September 2017
Date of Acceptance: 26 October 2015
Last Modified: 14 Nov 2023 11:45
URI: https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/104323

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