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Exponentially Large Extra Dimensions

High Energy Physics - Theory 2010-04-08 v3 Astrophysics High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

Abstract

We show how the presence of a very light scalar with a cubic self-interaction in six dimensions can stabilize the extra dimensions at radii which are naturally exponentially large, rexp[(4π)3/g2]r \sim \ell \exp [(4\pi)^3/g^2], where \ell is a microscopic physics scale and gg is the (dimensionless) cubic coupling constant. The resulting radion mode of the metric becomes a very light degree of freedom whose mass, m1/(Mpr2)m \sim 1/(M_p r^2) is stable under radiative corrections. For 1/r1031/r \sim 10^{-3} eV the radion is extremely light, m1033m \sim 10^{-33} eV. Its couplings cause important deviations from General Relativity in the very early universe, but naturally evolve to phenomenologically acceptable values at present.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/0105261,
  title  = {Exponentially Large Extra Dimensions},
  author = {A. Albrecht and C. P. Burgess and F. Ravndal and C. Skordis},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0105261},
  year   = {2010}
}

Comments

15 Pages including 1 figure. V3: Final version accepted for publication in PRD. This version has an improved discussion (in section IV-B) of our mechanism for preserving the small radion mass. No changes have been made to the technical content or results