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Low-energy effects in brane worlds: Liennard-Wiechert potentials and Hydrogen Lamb shift

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

Abstract

Testing extra dimensions at low-energies may lead to interesting effects. In this work a test point charge is taken to move uniformly in the 3-dimensional subspace of a (3+nn)-brane embedded in a (3+nn+1)-space with nn compact and one warped infinite spatial extra dimensions. We found that the electromagnetic potentials of the point charge match standard Liennard-Wiechert's at large distances but differ from them close to it. These are finite at the position of the charge and produce finite self-energies. We also studied a localized Hydrogen atom and take the deviation from the standard Coulomb potential as a perturbation. This produces a Lamb shift that is compared with known experimental data to set bounds for the parameter of the model. This work provides details and extends results reported in a previous Letter.

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@article{arxiv.physics/0611241,
  title  = {Low-energy effects in brane worlds: Liennard-Wiechert potentials and Hydrogen Lamb shift},
  author = {Hugo A. Morales-Técotl and Omar Pedraza and Luis O. Pimentel},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:physics/0611241},
  year   = {2008}
}

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