22–26 Jun 2026
Richard Roberts Auditorium
Europe/London timezone

Dark energy and screening

22 Jun 2026, 15:10
35m
Richard Roberts Auditorium

Richard Roberts Auditorium

13 Brook Hill, Sheffield S3 7HF

Speaker

philippe brax (CEA)

Description

Recent surveys suggest that dark energy could be dynamical and cross the phantom divide. This can be easily reproduced in scalar-tensor theories where
matter couples to dark energy. This potentially leads to serious gravitational problems in the solar system which can be evaded thanks to screening. I will argue that
multi-field models could both reconcile phantom crossing and screening.

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