Scalar kinks and fermion localization in warped spacetimes

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/22/4/008zbMATH Open1071.83561arXivhep-th/0407158OpenAlexW3099142567MaRDI QIDQ4671114FDOQ4671114

Publication date: 23 April 2005

Published in: Classical and Quantum Gravity (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: 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 negative cosmological constant. In the background of the kink and the corresponding warped geometry, we discuss the issue of localisation of spin half fermions (with emphasis on massive ones) on the brane in the presence of different types of kink-fermion Yukawa couplings. We analyse the possibility of quasi-bound states for large values of the Yukawa coupling parameter

g a m m a_{F}

(with

u

, the warp factor parameter kept fixed) using appropriate, recently developed, approximation methods. In particular, the spectrum of the low--lying states and their lifetimes are obtained, with the latter being exponentially enhanced for large

u g a m m a_{F}

. Our results indicate quantitatively, within this model, that it is possible to tune the nature of warping and the strength and form of the Yukawa interaction to obtain trapped massive fermion states on the brane, which, however, do have a finite (but very small) probability of escaping into the bulk.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0407158

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of differential geometry to physics (53Z05) String and superstring theories in gravitational theory (83E30)

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