Evading equivalence principle violations, cosmological, and other experimental constraints in scalar field theories with a strong coupling to matter

@article{Mota2006EvadingEP,
  title={Evading equivalence principle violations, cosmological, and other experimental constraints in scalar field theories with a strong coupling to matter},
  author={David F. Mota and Douglas J. Shaw},
  journal={Physical Review D},
  year={2006},
  volume={75},
  pages={063501}
}
We show that, as a result of nonlinear self-interactions, it is feasible, at least in light of the bounds coming from terrestrial tests of gravity, measurements of the Casimir force and those constraints imposed by the physics of compact objects, big-bang nucleosynthesis and measurements of the cosmic microwave background, for there to exist, in our Universe, one or more scalar fields that couple to matter much more strongly than gravity does. These scalar fields behave like chameleons… 
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