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Bulk antisymmetric tensor fields in a Randall-Sundrum model

High Energy Physics - Theory 2008-11-26 v1 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

Abstract

We consider bulk antisymmetric tensor fields of various ranks in a Randall-Sundrum scenario. We show that, rank-2 onwards, the zero-modes of the projections of these fields on the (3+1) dimensional visible brane become increasingly weaker as the rank of the tensor increases. All such tensor fields of rank 4 or more are absent from the dynamics in four dimensions. This leaves only the zero-mode graviton to have coupling 1/MP\sim 1/M_P with matter, thus explaining why the large-scale behaviour of the universe is governed by gravity only. We have also computed the masses of the heavier modes upto rank-3, and shown that they are relatively less likely to have detectable accelerator signals.

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@article{arxiv.0709.3428,
  title  = {Bulk antisymmetric tensor fields in a Randall-Sundrum model},
  author = {Biswarup Mukhopadhyaya and Somasri Sen and Soumitra SenGupta},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0709.3428},
  year   = {2008}
}

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8 Pages, Latex

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