Limit on the time variation of the fine structure constant driven by quintessence

Modern Physics Letters A

Volumn 19, Issue 13-16, 2004, Pages 1089-1092

  Lee, Wolung ^a   Ng, Kin Wang ^a   Lee, Da Shin ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL DONG HWA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Darke energy; Fine structure constant; Quintessence

Indexed keywords

CALCULATION; CONFERENCE PAPER; COSMOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; COSMOS; DARK ENERGY; DENSITY; DYNAMICS; ENERGY; FORCE; MASS; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MODEL; PHENOMENOLOGY; PHYSICS; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; TIME; VACUUM;

EID: 2942533963     PISSN: 02177323     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1142/s0217732304014410     Document Type: Conference Paper

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