Localization of matters on pure geometrical thick branes

Yu Xiao Liu*, Xin Hui Zhang, Li Da Zhang, Yi Shi Duan

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Abstract

In the literatures, several types of thick smooth brane configurations in a pure geometric Weyl integrable 5-dimensional space time have been presented. The Weyl geometry is a non-Riemannian modification of 5-dimensional Kaluza-Klein (KK) theory. All these thick brane solutions preserve 4-dimensional Poincaré invariance, and some of them break Z 2-symmetry along the extra dimension. In this paper, we study localization of various matter fields on these pure geometrical thick branes, which also localize the graviton. We present the shape of the potential of the corresponding Schrödinger problem and obtain the lowest KK mode. It is shown that, for both spin 0 scalars and spin 1 vectors, there exists a continuum gapless spectrum of KK states with m 2>0. But only the massless mode of scalars is found to be normalizable on the brane. However, for the massless left or right chiral fermion localization, there must be some kind of Yukawa coupling. For a special coupling, there exist a series of discrete massive KK modes with m 2>0. It is also showed that for a given coupling constant only one of the massless chiral modes is localized on the branes.

Original languageEnglish
Article number067
JournalJournal of High Energy Physics
Volume2008
Issue number2
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 1 Feb 2008
Externally publishedYes

Keywords

  • Field theories in higher dimensions
  • Large extra dimensions

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