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Superfluids and the cosmological constant problem

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DOI: 10.1088/1475-7516/2018/08/024

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dark energy theory; modified gravity

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  1. Center for Particle Cosmology by the University of Pennsylvania
  2. NSF CAREER Award [PHY-1145525]
  3. US Department of Energy (HEP) Award [DE-SC0017804]
  4. NASA ATP grant [NNX11AI95G]
  5. Charles E. Kaufman Foundation of the Pittsburgh Foundation
  6. W.M. Keck Foundation Science and Engineering Grant
  7. U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) [DE-SC0017804] Funding Source: U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)

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We introduce a novel method to circumvent Weinberg's no-go theorem for self-tuning the cosmological vacuum energy: a finite-temperature superfluid can counter the effects of an arbitrarily large cosmological constant. Fluctuations of the superfluid result in the graviton acquiring a Lorentz-violating mass and we identify a unique class of theories that are pathology free, phenomenologically viable, and do not suffer from instantaneous modes. This new and hitherto unidentified phase of massive gravity propagates the same degrees of freedom as general relativity with an additional Lorentz-violating scalar that is introduced by higher-derivative operators in a UV insensitive manner. The superfluid is therefore a consistent infrared modification of gravity. We demonstrate how the superfluid can degravitate a cosmological constant and discuss its phenomenology.

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