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Fifth forces in and around galaxies

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If you have a question about this talk, please contact Dr Dong-Gang Wang .

Light scalar fields are often considered as part of explanations for dark energy and dark matter. They also appear in theories in which gravity is modified on cosmological scales. If the scalar field theory has a screening mechanism, the fifth forces that the scalar mediates can be significant in the cosmological vacuum but suppressed on Earth and in the solar system. It has been claimed that current data from galaxy surveys is sufficient to exclude the possibility that these theories could be relevant on astrophysical or cosmological scales. In this talk I will consider how such scalar fields behave in galaxies, and show that they may not be excluded after all.

This talk is part of the Cosmology Lunch series.

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