Editing Acceleron (section)

{{Short description|Hypothetical subatomic particle}}
{{use dmy dates|date=May 2024}}
{{for|the pharmaceutical company|Acceleron Pharma}}

An '''acceleron''' is a hypothetical [[scalar boson]] postulated to relate the mass of the [[neutrino]] to the [[dark energy]] conjectured to be responsible for the [[accelerating expansion of the universe]].<ref>
{{cite news
 |title = New theory links neutrino's slight mass to accelerating universe expansion
 |website = sciencedaily.com
 |url = https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2004/07/040728090338.htm
 |access-date = 2008-06-05   |url-status = live
 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20080513140136/https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2004/07/040728090338.htm
 |archive-date = 13 May 2008
}}
</ref><ref>
{{cite journal
 |last1=Kaplan |first1=D.
 |last2=Nelson |first2=A.
 |last3=Weiner |first3=N.
 |year=2004
 |title=Neutrino oscillations as a probe of dark energy
 |journal=[[Physical Review Letters]]
 |volume=93  |issue=9  |pages=091801
 |arxiv=hep-ph/0401099  |bibcode=2004PhRvL..93i1801K
 |doi=10.1103/PhysRevLett.93.091801 |pmid=15447091
 |s2cid=8861027
}}
</ref><ref>
{{cite journal
 |last1=Fardon |first1=R.
 |last2=Nelson |first2=A.
 |last3=Weiner |first3=N.
 |year=2004
 |title=Dark energy from mass varying neutrinos
 |journal=[[Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics]]
 |volume=2004 |issue=10 |pages=005
 |arxiv=astro-ph/0309800  |bibcode=2004JCAP...10..005F
 |doi=10.1088/1475-7516/2004/10/005  |s2cid=250827123
}}
</ref>
The acceleron was postulated by researchers at the [[University of Washington]] in 2004.<ref>
{{cite press release
 |first = Vince |last = Stricherz
 |date = 2004-07-27  |df = dmy-all
 |title = New theory links neutrino's slight mass to accelerating universe expansion
 |website = [[University of Washington|UW]] News (uwnews.org)
 |publisher = [[University of Washington]]
 |place = Seattle, WA
 |url=http://www.uwnews.org/article.asp?articleID=5166
 |access-date=2023-09-06
 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20040822060751/http://www.uwnews.org/article.asp?articleID=5166
 |archive-date = 2004-08-22
}}
</ref>