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EUROPEAN PHYSICAL JOURNAL C
Volume 77, Issue 9, Pages -Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1140/epjc/s10052-017-5172-3
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- Science and Technology Facilities Council [ST/J000477/1]
- STFC [ST/J000477/1] Funding Source: UKRI
- Science and Technology Facilities Council [ST/J000477/1] Funding Source: researchfish
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We consider the full effective theory for quantum gravity at second order in curvature including non-local terms. We show that the theory contains two new degrees of freedom beyond the massless graviton: namely a massive spin-2 ghost and amassive scalar field. Furthermore, we show that it is impossible to fine-tune the parameters of the effective action to eliminate completely the classical spin-2 ghost because of the non-local terms in the effective action. Being a classical field, it is not clear anyway that this ghost is problematic. It simply implies a repulsive contribution to Newton's potential. We then consider how to extract the parameters of the effective action and show that it is possible tomeasure, at least in principle, the parameters of the local terms independently of each other using a combination of observations of gravitational waves and measurements performed by pendulum type experiments searching for deviations of Newton's potential.
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