Massive Gravity and Cosmology
Project information
MassiveCosmo
Grant agreement ID: 724659
Status
Ongoing project
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Start date
1 May 2017
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End date
30 April 2022
Funded under:
H2020-EU.1.1.
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Overall budget:
€ 1 975 829
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EU contribution
€ 1 975 829
Objective
As General Relativity celebrates its centennial, its predictive successes and its status as our most elegant theory of gravity are incontrovertible. Nevertheless, while the recent discovery of the late-time acceleration of the Universe is in perfect agreement with observations, the 120 orders of magnitude discrepancy between expectations and observations is one of today's most challenging puzzles and may be the sign of new physics to uncover. This conundrum has driven the development of dark energy models as alternative sources for acceleration, but many of them suffer from a similar discrepancy and require an unnatural tuning of their parameters. Despite decades of attempts, the Old Cosmological Constant Problem remains yet unsolved.
This program proposes a distinct direction to address this problem and to explain the acceleration of the Universe where the graviton, the particle carrier of gravity, has a mass, or is effectively massive. Not only will this open a new panorama for cosmology, it will also answer the fundamental question of the nature of the graviton. Signatures and constraints will be derived through astrophysical and cosmological probes.
While striving to address these fundamental challenges, the program will also elucidate new aspects of massive gravity by establishing its theoretical viability and embedding as an effective field theory. These developments will feed into new breakthroughs that have recently emerged from massive gravity.
As major missions and experiments are underway to probe dark energy and to detect gravitational waves, there is no better time to question gravity at the fundamental level, to provide alternatives to dark energy and to determine their unique signatures.
Field of Science
/natural sciences/physical sciences/astronomy/observational astronomy/gravitational waves
/natural sciences/physical sciences/astronomy/physical cosmology
/natural sciences/physical sciences/astronomy/astrophysics/dark matter
Funding Scheme
ERC-COG - Consolidator Grant
Host institution
IMPERIAL COLLEGE OF SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY AND MEDICINE
Address
South Kensington Campus Exhibition Road
Sw7 2az London
United Kingdom
Activity type
Higher or Secondary Education Establishments
EU Contribution
€ 1 975 829
Beneficiaries (1)
IMPERIAL COLLEGE OF SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY AND MEDICINE
United Kingdom
EU Contribution
€ 1 975 829
Project information
MassiveCosmo
Grant agreement ID: 724659
Status
Ongoing project
-
Start date
1 May 2017
-
End date
30 April 2022
Funded under:
H2020-EU.1.1.
-
Overall budget:
€ 1 975 829
-
EU contribution
€ 1 975 829
Project information
MassiveCosmo
Grant agreement ID: 724659
Status
Ongoing project
-
Start date
1 May 2017
-
End date
30 April 2022
Funded under:
H2020-EU.1.1.
-
Overall budget:
€ 1 975 829
-
EU contribution
€ 1 975 829
Project information
MassiveCosmo
Grant agreement ID: 724659
Status
Ongoing project
-
Start date
1 May 2017
-
End date
30 April 2022
Funded under:
H2020-EU.1.1.
-
Overall budget:
€ 1 975 829
-
EU contribution
€ 1 975 829
Project information
MassiveCosmo
Grant agreement ID: 724659
Status
Ongoing project
-
Start date
1 May 2017
-
End date
30 April 2022
Funded under:
H2020-EU.1.1.
-
Overall budget:
€ 1 975 829
-
EU contribution
€ 1 975 829
Deliverables
Deliverables not available
Publications
Project information
MassiveCosmo
Grant agreement ID: 724659
Status
Ongoing project
-
Start date
1 May 2017
-
End date
30 April 2022
Funded under:
H2020-EU.1.1.
-
Overall budget:
€ 1 975 829
-
EU contribution
€ 1 975 829
Project information
MassiveCosmo
Grant agreement ID: 724659
Status
Ongoing project
-
Start date
1 May 2017
-
End date
30 April 2022
Funded under:
H2020-EU.1.1.
-
Overall budget:
€ 1 975 829
-
EU contribution
€ 1 975 829
Project information
MassiveCosmo
Grant agreement ID: 724659
Status
Ongoing project
-
Start date
1 May 2017
-
End date
30 April 2022
Funded under:
H2020-EU.1.1.
-
Overall budget:
€ 1 975 829
-
EU contribution
€ 1 975 829
