Acceleron

An acceleron is a hypothetical scalar boson postulated to relate the mass of the neutrino to the dark energy conjectured to be responsible for the accelerating expansion of the universe.

{{cite news

|title = New theory links neutrino's slight mass to accelerating universe expansion

|website = sciencedaily.com

|url = https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2004/07/040728090338.htm

|access-date = 2008-06-05 |url-status = live

|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20080513140136/https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2004/07/040728090338.htm

|archive-date = 13 May 2008

}}

{{cite journal

|last1=Kaplan |first1=D.

|last2=Nelson |first2=A.

|last3=Weiner |first3=N.

|year=2004

|title=Neutrino oscillations as a probe of dark energy

|volume=93 |issue=9 |pages=091801

|arxiv=hep-ph/0401099 |bibcode=2004PhRvL..93i1801K

|doi=10.1103/PhysRevLett.93.091801 |pmid=15447091

|s2cid=8861027

}}

{{cite journal

|last1=Fardon |first1=R.

|last2=Nelson |first2=A.

|last3=Weiner |first3=N.

|year=2004

|title=Dark energy from mass varying neutrinos

|volume=2004 |issue=10 |pages=005

|arxiv=astro-ph/0309800 |bibcode=2004JCAP...10..005F

|doi=10.1088/1475-7516/2004/10/005 |s2cid=250827123

}}

The acceleron was postulated by researchers at the University of Washington in 2004.

{{cite press release

|first = Vince |last = Stricherz

|date = 2004-07-27 |df = dmy-all

|title = New theory links neutrino's slight mass to accelerating universe expansion

|website = UW News (uwnews.org)

|place = Seattle, WA

|url=http://www.uwnews.org/article.asp?articleID=5166

|access-date=2023-09-06

|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20040822060751/http://www.uwnews.org/article.asp?articleID=5166

|archive-date = 2004-08-22

}}

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