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A Confinement Potential for Leptons and Their Tunneling Effects into Extra Dimensions

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2012-09-25 v3

Abstract

Considering the five-dimensional warped spacetime AdS_5 with the D3-brane, we derive a potential in the fifth dimension, according to which ordinary particles are initially confined on the D3-brane. It is estimated, however, that the lightest neutrino with mass m_1 is tunneling away into the extra dimension. Hence there is a possibility that no neutrinos with mass m_1 exist in cosmicbackground neutrinos, but surviving neutrinos are those with heavier masses m_2 and m_3. The other possibilities are also discussed.

Cite

@article{arxiv.1203.0733,
  title  = {A Confinement Potential for Leptons and Their Tunneling Effects into Extra Dimensions},
  author = {Akira Kokado and Takesi Saito},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1203.0733},
  year   = {2012}
}

Comments

6 pages, 1 figure

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