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astro-ph2004★ 55 cited
Chameleon Dark Energy
Ph. Brax, C. van de Bruck, A. C. Davis +2
Chameleons are scalar fields whose mass depends on the environment, specifically on the ambient matter density. While nearly massless in the cosmos, where the matter density is tin…
astro-ph2004★ 513 cited
Detecting Dark Energy in Orbit -- the Cosmological Chameleon
Philippe Brax, Carsten van de Bruck, Anne-Christine Davis +2
We show that the chameleon scalar field can drive the current phase of cosmic acceleration for a large class of scalar potentials that are also consistent with local tests of gravi…