The brane as a Higgs domain wall: ideas and issues
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2008-11-26 v1
Abstract
The most obvious field-theoretic model for a brane is a scalar field domain wall or kink. I discuss how this idea can be connected with spontaneous internal symmetry breaking via a mechanism called the ``clash of symmetries''. Compatibility with Randall and Sundrum's warped metric alternative to compactification is then demonstrated. I end with brief remarks about open questions.
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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0612295,
title = {The brane as a Higgs domain wall: ideas and issues},
author = {Raymond R. Volkas},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0612295},
year = {2008}
}
Comments
4 pages. Invited talk at Susy06. To appear in the proceedings