par Calmet, Xavier 
Référence Physical review. D, Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology, 76, 8, 083502
Publication Publié, 2007-10
Référence Physical review. D, Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology, 76, 8, 083502
Publication Publié, 2007-10
Article révisé par les pairs
| Résumé : | I discuss a mechanism which generates a mass term for a scalar field in an expanding universe. The mass of this field turns out to be generated by the cosmological constant and can be naturally small if protected by a conformal symmetry which is, however, broken in the gravitational sector. The mass is comparable today to the Hubble time. This scalar field could thus impact our Universe today and, for example, be at the origin of a time variation of the couplings and masses of the parameters of the standard model. © 2007 The American Physical Society. |
