C. J. A. P. Martins
Abstract
The observational evidence for the acceleration of the universe demonstrates that canonical theories of gravitation and particle physics are incomplete, if not incorrect. A new generation of astronomical facilities will soon carry out precision consistency tests of the standard cosmological model and search for evidence of new physics beyond it. I describe recent work of CAUP's Dark Side team on some of these tests, focusing on the stability of nature's fundamental couplings and tests of unification scenarios.
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Nuclear Physics in Astrophysics VI (NPA6)
19–24 May 2013, Lisbon, Portugal
Journal of Physics: Conference Series
IOP Publishing
Volume 665
2016 January
