A New Strategy for Solving Two Cosmological Constant Problems in Hadron Physics

Abstract

A new approach to solving two of the cosmological constant problems (CCPs) is proposed by introducing the AbbottDeser (AD) method for defining Killing charges in asymptotic de Sitter space as the only consistent means for defining the ground-state vacuum for the CCP. That granted, Einstein gravity will also need to be modified at short-distance nuclear scales, using instead a nonminimally coupled scalar-tensor theory of gravitation that provides for the existence of QCD's two-phase vacuum having two different zero-point energy states as a function of temperature. Einstein gravity alone cannot accomplish this. The scalar field will be taken from bag theory in hadron physics, and the origin of the bag constant B is accounted for by gravity's CC as Bag

Inconsistencies in Theoretical Physics, with Focus on the Higgs Mechanism

“…In the afore-mentioned paper [1] on the cosmological constant problem [CCP], this author demonstrated that the cosmological term in Einstein gravity (EG) as a scalar is therefore a potential term-a characteristic of EG that has been noted elsewhere [7]. It was also pointed out in [1] that Brans-Dicke theory is known to have been eliminated experimentally as a scalar-tensor alternative to EG.…”

“…In the afore-mentioned paper [1] on the cosmological constant problem [CCP], this author demonstrated that the cosmological term in Einstein gravity (EG) as a scalar is therefore a potential term-a characteristic of EG that has been noted elsewhere [7]. It was also pointed out in [1] that Brans-Dicke theory is known to have been eliminated experimentally as a scalar-tensor alternative to EG. It was then demonstrated how to construct a consistent scalar-tensor theory in hadron physics to account for the two known values of the vacuum energy density (VED) V ρ , one inside the hadron as a bag in quantum chromodynamics (QCD), for particle and nuclear physics, and one for the de Sitter phase gravitational background recently observed as an accelerating Universe in Friedman-Lemaitre-Robertson-Walker (FLRW) cosmology [8]- [10].…”

“…Only this current paper and [1] address the inconsistency in particle physics of comparing energy calculations between incompatible asymptotic spacetimes. It is also argued that de Sitter space or CG is the mandatory background in order to solve the CCP in the observed accelerating Universe where 0 λ ≠ [8]- [10].…”

“…The Abbott-Deser (AD) method [12] for identifying mass and energy and their Killing-charge successors was shown to be the only consistent means for identifying them as the unique quantities associated with the asymptotic geometry at spatial infinity of de Sitter spacetime [1]. Hence a consistent definition and usage of global energy (Killing charge) in asymptotic spacetime must be adopted in theoretical (particle) physics.…”

“…Instead, particle physics has become physics without gravity. This section, culled from [1], will review several of the well-established metrics in CG and relate them to the AD formalism for asymptotic de Sitter spacetimes (where 0 λ ≠ ).…”