{"id":2276,"date":"2003-05-01T18:56:26","date_gmt":"2003-05-01T18:56:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/casgroups.case.edu\/physics-senior-projects\/?p=2276"},"modified":"2016-06-17T18:57:04","modified_gmt":"2016-06-17T18:57:04","slug":"axions-quintessence-and-naturalness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/casgroups.case.edu\/physics-senior-projects\/axions-quintessence-and-naturalness\/","title":{"rendered":"Axions, Quintessence  and Naturalness"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 style=\"text-align: center\">Steven Stroiney with Lawrence Krauss<\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center\">Axions, Quintessence\u00a0 and Naturalness<\/h3>\n<p>We will explore the issue of naturalness as it relates to one of the prime candidates for &#8220;quintessence&#8221;&#8230; a scalar field in a slowly varying potential that mimics, for some time, a cosmological constant in the Universe.\u00a0 The field we will examine is a pseudoscalar &#8220;axion-like&#8221; field whose symmetry breaking scale is at the Planck scale.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Steven Stroiney with Lawrence KraussAxions, Quintessence\u00a0 and Naturalness<\/p>\n<p>We will explore the issue of naturalness as it relates to one of the prime candidates for &#8220;quintessence&#8221;&#8230; a scalar field in a slowly varying potential that mimics, for some time, a cosmological constant in the Universe.\u00a0 The field we will examine is a pseudoscalar &#8220;axion-like&#8221; field whose symmetry breaking scale is at the Planck scale.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/casgroups.case.edu\/physics-senior-projects\/axions-quintessence-and-naturalness\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading&#8230; <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Axions, Quintessence  and Naturalness<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":""},"categories":[87,41],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/casgroups.case.edu\/physics-senior-projects\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2276"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/casgroups.case.edu\/physics-senior-projects\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/casgroups.case.edu\/physics-senior-projects\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/casgroups.case.edu\/physics-senior-projects\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/casgroups.case.edu\/physics-senior-projects\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2276"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/casgroups.case.edu\/physics-senior-projects\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2276\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2277,"href":"https:\/\/casgroups.case.edu\/physics-senior-projects\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2276\/revisions\/2277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/casgroups.case.edu\/physics-senior-projects\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/casgroups.case.edu\/physics-senior-projects\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/casgroups.case.edu\/physics-senior-projects\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}