Teoria de Casimir para a energia escura revisitada

We assume that Dark Energy" (of a fixed small region of space at the present cosmic time) may be identified with the system consisting of the vacuum and of a few one-particle states of zero momentum of a scalar quantum field of mass u different 0. Under this assumption we show that local quantu...

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Autor: Gustavo Gazzola de Lima
Tipo de recurso: tesis de maestría
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2009
País:Brasil
Institución:Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (UFMG)
Repositorio:Repositório Institucional da UFMG
Idioma:portugués
OAI Identifier:oai:repositorio.ufmg.br:1843/ESCZ-7YSJH2
Acceso en línea:http://hdl.handle.net/1843/ESCZ-7YSJH2
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Teoria de Casimir
Energia escura
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Dark energy
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Sumario:We assume that Dark Energy" (of a fixed small region of space at the present cosmic time) may be identified with the system consisting of the vacuum and of a few one-particle states of zero momentum of a scalar quantum field of mass u different 0. Under this assumption we show that local quantum field theory yields a corresponding energy momentum tensor of the perfect fuid form, and that a strictly positive energycan be localized only in regions of linear dimension L of the order of the particle Compton wave-length 1/u. Some early conjectured values for the \axion" rest-mass yield an estimate 1:44x10-56+4GeV4 for the dark energy density. In this way, we hope to have "made a case" for revisiting the Casimir theory of dark energy, proposed in 2002 by M. Turner.