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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

We discuss a new solution, admitting the existence of dS_{4} branes, in five-dimensional Brans-Dicke theory. It is shown that, due to a special form of a bulk scalar field potential, for certain values of the model parameters the effective…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-11-09 Mikhail N. Smolyakov

We consider brane world models, which can be constructed in the five-dimensional Brans-Dicke theory with bulk scalar field potentials suggested by the supergravity theory. For different choices of the potentials and parameters we get: (i)…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-11 Alexey S. Mikhailov , Yuri S. Mikhailov , Mikhail N. Smolyakov , Igor P. Volobuev

We consider cosmological models where the universe, governed by Einstein's equations, is a piece of a five dimensional double-sided anti-de Sitter spacetime (that is, a "$Z_2$-symmetric bulk") with matter confined to its four dimensional…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-31 Nathalie Deruelle , Tomas Dolezel , Joseph Katz

Nonobservation of superparticles till date, new Higgs mass limits from the CMS and ATLAS experiments, WMAP constraints on relic density, various other low energy data, and the naturalness consideration, all considered simultaneously imply a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2012-05-16 Gautam Bhattacharyya , Tirtha Sankar Ray

We investigate thermodynamic and dynamical stability of a family of six-dimensional braneworld solutions with de Sitter branes. First, we investigate thermodynamic stability in terms of de Sitter entropy. We see that the family of solutions…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-10-27 Shunichiro Kinoshita , Yuuiti Sendouda , Shinji Mukohyama

In this work, we study the gravitational quasinormal modes and the gravitational echoes of a double braneworld. The double braneworld is a kind of split thick brane, which is crucial for addressing the hierarchy problem in the thick brane…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-12-16 Qin Tan , Sheng Long , Weike Deng , Jiliang Jing

Braneworld effective action for two-brane model is constructed by two different methods based respectively on the Dirichlet and Neumann boundary value problems. The equivalence of these methods is shown due to nontrivial duality relations…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 D. V. Nesterov , A. O. Barvinsky

We consider the stabilization of de Sitter brane-world. The scalar field bulk-brane theory produces the non-trivial minimum of modulus potential where temporal radion is realized. The hierarchy problem (between Planck and electroweak…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-09-17 Shin'ichi Nojiri , Sergei D. Odintsov , Akio Sugamoto

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

Cylindrical braneworlds have been used in the literature as a convenient way to resolve co-dimension-two branes. They are prevented from collapsing by a massless worldvolume field with non-trivial winding, but here we discuss another way of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-08-02 Florian Niedermann , Paul M. Saffin

We generalise the RS braneworld model by taking into account a general stringy bulk containing the scalar dilaton field and the two-form Kalb-Ramond field, apart from gravity. Assuming small fluctuations around a RS background, the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Saurya Das , Anindya Dey , Soumitra SenGupta

We examine the inclusion of brane self-gravity in brane-world scenarios with three or more compact extra dimensions. If the brane is a thin, localized one, then we find that the geometry in its vicinity is warped in such a way that gravity…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-02-03 Christos Charmousis , Roberto Emparan , Ruth Gregory

In this work, we study 5-dimensional braneworld scenarios in the scalar-tensor representation of the generalized hybrid metric-Palatini gravitational theory. We start by considering a model for a brane supported purely by the gravitational…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-01-19 João Luís Rosa , Douglas A. Ferreira , Dionisio Bazeia , Francisco S. N. Lobo

The stability problem of Randall-Sundrum braneworld is readdressed in the light of stabilizing bulk scalar fields. It is shown that in such scenario the instability persists because of back-reaction even when an arbitrary potential is…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-11 Debaprasad Maity , Soumitra SenGupta , Sourav Sur

We study the dynamical equations for extra-dimensional dependence of a warp factor and a bulk scalar in 5d brane world scenarios with induced brane metric of constant curvature. These equations are similar to those for the time dependence…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-07 Gary N. Felder , Andrei Frolov , Lev Kofman

Within the braneworld paradigm the tachyonic scalar field has been used to generate models that attempt to solve some of the open problems that physics faces nowadays, both in cosmology and high energy physics as well. When these field…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-01-27 Gabriel German , Alfredo Herrera-Aguilar , Andre M. Kuerten , Dagoberto Malagon-Morejon , Roldao da Rocha

In this paper we apply the five-dimensional $f(T)$ gravity with $f(T)=T+k T^n$ to brane scenario to explore the solutions under a given warp factor, and we find that the analytic domain wall solution will be a double-kink solution when the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2012-08-03 Jie Yang , Yun-Liang Li , Yuan Zhong , Yang Li

Super-exponential warp factors have been proposed in the context of two-brane models to solve the gauge hierarchy problem of scales by using a compactification scale of the same order of the fundamental Planck scale, completely eliminating…

Recently, a new scalar-tensor braneworld model was presented in [Phys. Rev. \textbf{D 86} (2012) 127502]. It not only solves the gauge hierarchy problem but also reproduces a correct Friedmann-like equation on the brane. In this new model,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-10-14 Qun-Ying Xie , Zhen-Hua Zhao , Yi Zhong , Jie Yang , Xiang-Nan Zhou