Constraining the Symmetron Model with the HUST-2020 Torsion Pendulum Experiment.

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MOE Key Laboratory of Fundamental Physical Quantities Measurement and Hubei Key Laboratory of Gravitation and Quantum Physics, PGMF and School of Physics, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430074, People's Republic of China.

Published: September 2022


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The search for dynamically screening the coupling between the scalar field and matter in high-density environment is achievable with the symmetron model. The high-accuracy and short-range gravity experiment is proposed to test the symmetron model. In this Letter, the data of the HUST-2020 torsion pendulum experiment testing the inverse-square law at submillimeter range is analyzed to constrain the symmetron model. The results show that the HUST-2020 experiment is uniquely sensitive to probe the symmetron model with a mass scale of μ=7.2×10^{-3}  eV, and the self-coupling parameter λ≲105 is excluded at mass scale M=0.3  TeV. Especially, at the dark energy scale μ=2.4×10^{-3}  eV, the constraint at M=1.3  TeV is improved by about 10 times the previous constraints on the torsion pendulum experiment.

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