4 papers
Multi-Field Dilaton Screening Beyond the Thin-Shell Mechanism
Philippe Brax, Carsten van de Bruck, Anne-Christine Davis +1
We analyse screening in multi-field scalar-tensor theories, focusing on systems with a dilaton coupled to matter and an axion with a dilaton-dependent kinetic term, in the presence…
Illuminating the dark universe in the multi-messenger era
Philippe Brax, Anne-Christine Davis, Md Riajul Haque +8
The precision era of multi-messenger astronomy, together with modern astrophysical, cosmological, and gravitational wave observations, increasingly points toward the existence of a…
Screened Axio-dilaton Cosmology: Novel Forms of Early Dark Energy
Adam Smith, Philippe Brax, Carsten van de Bruck +2
We study the cosmology of multi-field Dark Energy, using a well-motivated axio-dilaton model that contains the minimal number of fields to have the 2-derivative sigma-model interac…
A Minimal Axio-dilaton Dark Sector
Adam Smith, Maria Mylova, Philippe Brax +3
In scalar-tensor theories it is the two-derivative sigma-model interactions that like to compete at low energies with the two-derivative interactions of General Relativity (GR) $\u…