Gravity Resonance Spectroscopy and Dark Energy Symmetron Fields

TL;DR

This paper uses gravity resonance spectroscopy to investigate the effects of dark energy symmetron fields on gravitational energy states, providing new constraints on these scalar fields and their role in dark energy theories.

Contribution

It offers the first analysis of symmetron fields' impact on gravitational states using resonance spectroscopy, constraining their parameters.

Findings

Placed limits on symmetron field parameters.

Demonstrated the sensitivity of gravity resonance spectroscopy to dark energy models.

Provided new bounds that inform dark energy theories.

Abstract

Spectroscopic methods allow to measure energy differences with unrivaled precision. In the case of gravity resonance spectroscopy, energy differences of different gravitational states are measured without recourse to the electromagnetic interaction. This provides a very pure and background free look at gravitation and topics related to the central problem of dark energy and dark matter at short distances. In this article we analyse the effect of additional dark energy scalar symmetron fields, a leading candidate for a screened dark energy field, and place limits in a large volume of parameter space.