Physical review letters
Leading Bounds on Micrometer to Picometer Fifth Forces from Neutron Star Cooling.
Damiano F G Fiorillo, Alessandro Lella, Ciaran A J O'Hare, Edoardo Vitagliano
Published: 202510.1103/tlqz-713s
Abstract
The equivalence principle and the inverse-square law of gravity could be violated at short distances (10^{-6}-10^{-12} m) by scalars sporting a coupling g_{N} to nucleons and mass eV≲m_{ϕ}≲MeV. We show for the first time that stringent bounds on the…
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