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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

Unlike the duality in four-dimensional spacetime, where the $q-$form fields corresponds to the scalar fields or the vector fields, in higher dimensional spacetime, they denote new types of particles. In this paper, we investigate the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-10-27 Xin-Nuo Zhang , Heng Guo , Yong-Tao Lu

A three-parameter (positive odd integer $s$, thickness factor $\lambda$, and asymmetry factor $a$) family of asymmetric thick brane solutions in five dimensions were constructed from a two-parameter ($s$ and $\lambda$) family of symmetric…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-09-24 Yu-Xiao Liu , Chun-E Fu , Li Zhao , Yi-Shi Duan

We address the properties of self-gravitating domain walls arising from the breaking of an SU(N) x Z_2- symmetric theory. In the particular case of N=5, we find that the two classes of stable non-abelian kinks possible in flat space have an…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-08-09 Alejandra Melfo , Roger Naranjo , Nelson Pantoja , Aureliano Skirzewski , Juan Carlos Vasquez

We investigate the fermion localization in extra-dimensional $f(Q,\mathcal{T})$ gravity with cuscuton dynamics. This modified gravity theory is based on the nonmetricity scalar $Q$ and on the trace of the energy-momentum tensor…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-03-18 Allan R. P. Moreira , Shi-Hai Dong , Emmanuel N. Saridakis

Different from the Dirac spinor, the localization of a five-dimensional Elko spinor on a brane with codimension one is very difficult because of the special structure of the Elko spinor. By introducing the coupling between the Elko spinor…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-11-09 Xiang-Nan Zhou , Xin-Yuan Ma , Zhen-Hua Zhao , Yun-Zhi Du

In this paper we consider a geometrical Yukawa coupling as a solution to the problem of gauge field localization. We show that upon dimensional reduction the vector field component of the field is localized but the scalar component ($A_5$)…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-22 G. Alencar , R. R. Landim , M. O. Tahim , R. N. Costa Filho

We study bulk fermion fields in various multi-brane models with localized gravity. The chiral zero mode that these models support can be identified as a right-handed sterile neutrino. In this case small neutrino Dirac masses can naturally…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-02-03 Stavros Mouslopoulos

The localization of chiral fermionic zero modes in scalar field backgrounds with domain wall structure is a central mechanism in brane-world scenarios. We investigate this mechanism in a system that provides an effective realization of the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-04-16 H. P. Pinheiro , C. A. S. Almeida

In this paper, by presenting the potentials of Kaluza-Klein (KK) modes in the corresponding Schr\"{o}dinger equations, we investigate the localization and resonances of gravity and fermion on the symmetric and asymmetric Bloch {branes}. We…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-11-18 Qun-Ying Xie , Jie Yang , Li Zhao

We discuss the localization of scalar, fermion, and gauge field zero modes on a $3-$brane that resides at the intersection of two $4-$branes in six-dimensional anti-de Sitter space. This set-up has been introduced in the context of brane…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-02-25 Antonino Flachi , Masato Minamitsuji

It is well known that the U(1) gauge vector field, with the standard five-dimensional (5D) action, cannot be localized on Randall-Sundrum-like braneworlds with an infinite extra dimension. In this paper, we propose a modified 5D action to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-04-12 Zhen-Hua Zhao , Qun-Ying Xie , Yuan Zhong

In order to localize $U(1)$ gauge vector field on Randall-Sundrum-like braneworld model with infinite extra dimension, we propose a new kind of non-minimal coupling between the $U(1)$ gauge field and the gravity. We propose three kinds of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-05-16 Zhen-Hua Zhao , Qun-Ying Xie

A toy model where a massless, real, scalar field $\Phi$ in a compact space-time ${\cal M}_4 \times {\cal S}_1$ is coupled to a brane (parametrized as a $\delta$-function) through the unique relevant operator $\delta (y) \Phi^2 (x,y)$ is…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-12-05 A. Donini

The localization problem for massive fermions in the 5D standing wave braneworld is considered. The fermion generations on the brane are explained by the existence of three nodes of standing waves in the bulk, where the left and right modes…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-04-23 Merab Gogberashvili , Giorgi Tukhashvili

Computation of Yukawa couplings, determining superpotentials as well as the K\"{a}hler metric, with oblique (non-commuting) fluxes in magnetized brane constructions is an interesting unresolved issue, in view of the importance of such…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-12-17 Ignatios Antoniadis , Alok Kumar , Binata Panda

We introduce new realistic brane-solutions with exponential scale factors in the 6D-space-time. We show that for these solutions the zero modes of all bulk fields are sharply localized at different positions on the brane and have "Gaussian…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-10 P. Midodashvili

In this paper, we investigate the localization of the $U(1)$ gauge field on Randall-Sundrum-like braneworld models. The localization of the $U(1)$ gauge field is important because it plays a fundamental role in the branworld theories. To…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-07-12 Zhen-Hua Zhao , Qun-Ying Xie , Chun-E. Fu , Xiang-Nan Zhou

We study localization of bulk fermions on a string-like defect with the exponentially decreasing warp factor in six dimensions with inclusion of U(1) gauge background from the viewpoint of field theory, and give the conditions under which…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-13 Yu-Xiao Liu , Li Zhao , Yi-Shi Duan

The dynamics of higher-spin fields in braneworlds is discussed. In particular, we study fermionic and bosonic higher-spin fields in AdS_5 and their localization on branes. We find that four-dimensional zero modes exist only for spin-one…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-10 Cristiano Germani , Alex Kehagias