Abstract
We review the hypothetical interactions predicted beyond the Standard Model which could be constrained by using the results of tabletop laboratory experiments. These interactions are described by the power-type potentials with different powers, Yukawa potential, other spin-independent potentials, and by the spin-dependent potentials of different kinds. In all these cases the current constraints on respective hypothetical interactions are considered which follow from the Casimir effect and some other tabletop physics. The exotic particles and constraints on them are discussed in the context of problems of the quantum vacuum, dark energy, and the cosmological constant.
Highlights
Despite great successes of the Standard Model, there is general agreement that it does not provide a solution to a number of crucial problems of modern physics such as quantization of the gravitational field [1], the enormously large energy density of the quantum vacuum [2], strong CP violation in QCD [3], the problems of dark matter and dark energy [4], etc
[8], spin-1 elementary excitations of the gravitational field in extra dimensions graviphotons [9], scalar particles dilatons which arise in the multidimensional schemes with spontaneously compactified extra dimensions [10], the Nambu-Goldstone fermions goldstinos introduced in the supersymmetric theories with a spontaneously broken supersymmetry [11,12], etc
In the foregoing, we have considered different theoretical predictions beyond the Standard Model and constraints on them following from measurements of the Casimir force and several other laboratory experiments which cover the parameter regions neighboring to those covered by the Casimir effect
Summary
Despite great successes of the Standard Model, there is general agreement that it does not provide a solution to a number of crucial problems of modern physics such as quantization of the gravitational field [1], the enormously large energy density of the quantum vacuum [2], strong CP violation in QCD [3], the problems of dark matter and dark energy [4], etc. An exchange of massless hypothetical particles of different spins leads to the power-type potentials and forces which are inverse proportional to different powers of separation. It is unlikely that the predicted new forces will be observed using the accelerator techniques They lead, to some additional interactions between the closely spaced macroscopic bodies which contain a huge number of elementary constituents and, could be searched for in the tabletop laboratory experiments. These are the gravitational experiments of Eötvos and Cavendish type, experiments on neutron scattering, magnetometer measurements, measuring the decay rates of hypothetical particles into photons in strong magnetic field, precision atomic physics, etc.
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