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In this paper, thick branes generated by mimetic scalar field are investigated. Three typical thick brane models are constructed and the linear tensor and scalar perturbations are analyzed. These branes have different inner structures, some…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-02-27 Yi Zhong , Yuan Zhong , Yu-Peng Zhang , Yu-Xiao Liu

This work deals with gravity localization on codimension-1 brane worlds engendered by compacton-like kinks, the so-called hybrid branes. In such scenarios, the thin brane behaviour is manifested when the extra dimension is outside the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-02-03 D. F. S. Veras , W. T. Cruz , R. V. Maluf , C. A. S. Almeida

In this work, we investigate thick brane models with a single three-form field. We find novel solutions for thick braneworlds where only three-forms exist and interact gravitationally in the bulk, both with and without matter fields. We use…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-11-28 Jake E. B. Gordin , Kelly MacDevette , Jenna Bruton

We analyze the tensor perturbations of flat thick domain wall branes in $f(R)$ gravity. Our results indicate that under the transverse and traceless gauge, the metric perturbations decouple from the perturbation of the scalar field.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-05-18 Yuan Zhong , Yu-Xiao Liu , Ke Yang

In this work, we investigate a new warped five-dimensional, Z2-symmetric thick brane solution in the presence of a real scalar field. We examine the different geometric aspects of the model. We discuss the stability of the solution under…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-12-23 S. H. Hendi , N. Riazi , S. N. Sajadi

Stationary thick brane solutions supported by two spinor fields are considered. Two spinor fields are used here to exclude the off-diagonal components of the energy-momentum tensor of the spinor fields. The trapping of a test scalar field…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-05-27 V. Dzhunushaliev , V. Folomeev

Among the multiple 5D thick braneworld models that have been proposed in the last years, in order to address several open problems in modern physics, there is a specific one involving a tachyonic bulk scalar field. Delving into this…

In this work, we study a codimension-one thick brane within the framework of $f(Q,\mathcal{T})$ modified symmetric teleparallel gravity, where $Q$ is the nonmetricity scalar and $\mathcal{T}$ is the trace of the energy-momentum tensor.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-03-12 Fernando M. Belchior , Roberto V. Maluf , Carlos Alberto S. Almeida

This work deal with braneworld scenarios with generalized teleparallel gravity. We extend a recent investigation, where the model studied was described by $F(T)=T+k T^n$. In the current study, we introduce the first-order formalism to find…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-06-11 Roberto Menezes

Scalar kinks propagating along the bulk in warped spacetimes provide a thick brane realisation of the braneworld. We consider here, a class of such exact solutions of the full Einstein-scalar system with a sine-Gordon potential and a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Ratna Koley , Sayan Kar

We consider the effects of spacetime curvature and brane thickness on the localization of gauge fields on a brane via kinetic terms induced by localized fermions. We find that in a warped geometry with and infinitely thin brane, both the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-04-21 Rommel Guerrero , Alejandra Melfo , Nelson Pantoja , R. Omar Rodriguez

Braneworld scenarios consider our observable universe as a brane embedded in a five-dimensional bulk. In this work, we consider thick braneworld systems in the recently proposed dynamically equivalent scalar-tensor representation of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-11-11 João Luís Rosa , Matheus A. Marques , Dionisio Bazeia , Francisco S. N. Lobo

The nature of gravity and its strength compared with other forces are fundamental challenges faced by the actual science. A path to understanding the hierarchy problem of gravity consists in adding an extra dimension to Einstein-Hilbert's…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-02-25 F. A. Brito , L. Losano , J. R. L. Santos

We have considered gravity in a five-dimensional warped product space-time, with a time-dependent warp factor and a time-dependent extra dimension. The five-dimensional field equations are derived for a spatially flat FRW brane and the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-09-05 Sarbari Guha , Pinaki Bhattacharya

This work presents new results about the graviton massive spectrum in two-field thick branes. Analyzing the massive spectra with a relative probability method we have firstly showed the presence of resonance structures and obtained a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-02-18 W. T. Cruz , L. J. S. Sousa , R. V. Maluf , C. A. S. Almeida

In this work, we investigate braneworld models in mimetic gravity, with the source field having generalized dynamics. We present the mathematical description necessary to study the generalized model and consider the first-order formalism to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-11-21 A. S. Lobão

Braneworld models are interesting theoretical and phenomenological frameworks to search for new physics beyond the standard model of particles and cosmology. In this work, we discuss braneworld models whose gravitational dynamics are…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-11-17 A. R. P. Moreira , J. E. G. Silva , C. A. S. Almeida

We investigate a two scalar fields split braneworld model which leads to a possible approach to the hierarchy problem within the thick brane scenario. The model exhibits a resulting asymmetric warp factor suitable for this purpose. The…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-18 A. de Souza Dutra , G. P. de Brito , J. M. Hoff da Silva

Spherically symmetric time-dependent solutions for the 5D system of a scalar field canonically coupled to gravity are obtained and identified as an extension of recent results obtained by Ahmed, Grzadkowskia and Wudkab. The corresponding…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-12-31 Alex E. Bernardini , R. T. Cavalcanti , Roldao da Rocha

We suggest a thick braneworld model in the squared curvature gravity theory. Despite the appearance of higher order derivatives, the localization of gravity and various bulk matter fields is shown to be possible. The existence of the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-07-04 Yu-Xiao Liu , Yuan Zhong , Zhen-Hua Zhao , Hai-Tao Li