Time-evolution of the fine-structure constant in runaway dilaton models

P. E. Vielzeuf, C. J. A. P. Martins

Resumo
We study the detailed time-evolution of the fine-structure constant α in the string- inspired runaway dilaton class of models of Damour, Piazza and Veneziano [1, 2]. We provide constraints on this scenario via the time-variations of the fine-structure constant α as measured by spectroscopic experiments and we explore ways to distinguish the dilaton runaway models from other alternative.

5th Young Researcher Meeting, Trieste 2014
(Eds.) F. Agostini, C. Antolini, R. Aversa, G. Cattani, M. Di Stefano, M. Longobardi, M. Martinelli, A. Miceli, M. Migliaccio, F. Paci, D. Pietrobon, E. Pusceddu, F. Stellato

IOP Publishing
Vol. 566,
2014

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