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Lower Limit to the Scale of an Effective Quantum Theory of Gravitation

Caldwell, R. R. and Grin, Daniel (2008) Lower Limit to the Scale of an Effective Quantum Theory of Gravitation. Physical Review Letters, 100 (3). Art. No. 031301. ISSN 0031-9007. doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.100.031301. https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechAUTHORS:CALprl08

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Abstract

An effective quantum theory of gravitation in which gravity weakens at energies higher than ~10^-3 eV is one way to accommodate the apparent smallness of the cosmological constant. Such a theory predicts departures from the Newtonian inverse-square force law on distances below ~0.05 mm. However, it is shown that this modification also leads to changes in the long-range behavior of gravity and is inconsistent with observed gravitational lenses.


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Additional Information:©2008 The American Physical Society. (Received 6 June 2006; revised 19 September 2007; published 22 January 2008) We thank George Chartas for sharing his Chandra results. We thank the TAPIR group and Mark Wise at Caltech for useful discussions. R.C. was supported in part by NSF No. AST-0349213 and Research Corporation RI-0887 at Dartmouth.
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DOI:10.1103/PhysRevLett.100.031301
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