TY - JOUR
T1 - Localization of matters on pure geometrical thick branes
AU - Liu, Yu Xiao
AU - Zhang, Xin Hui
AU - Zhang, Li Da
AU - Duan, Yi Shi
PY - 2008/2/1
Y1 - 2008/2/1
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
KW - Field theories in higher dimensions
KW - Large extra dimensions
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U2 - 10.1088/1126-6708/2008/02/067
DO - 10.1088/1126-6708/2008/02/067
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:40549097049
SN - 1029-8479
VL - 2008
JO - Journal of High Energy Physics
JF - Journal of High Energy Physics
IS - 2
M1 - 067
ER -