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Localization of Matters on Pure Geometrical Thick Branes

High Energy Physics - Theory 2009-11-18 v6

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 Poincar\'e invariance, and some of them break Z2Z_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 Schro¨\mathrm{\ddot{o}}dinger problem and obtain the lowest KK mode. It is showed that, for both spin 0 scalars and spin 1 vectors, there exists a continuum gapless spectrum of KK states with m2>0m^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 m2>0m^2 >0. It is also showed that for a given coupling constant only one of the massless chiral modes is localized on the branes.

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@article{arxiv.0708.0065,
  title  = {Localization of Matters on Pure Geometrical Thick Branes},
  author = {Yu-Xiao Liu and Xin-Hui Zhang and Li-Da Zhang and Yi-Shi Duan},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0708.0065},
  year   = {2009}
}

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17 pages, 5 figures, accepted by JHEP