Electric dipole induced by gravity in fat branes

DOI10.1016/J.PHYSLETB.2014.02.039MaRDI QIDQ527484zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Alex de Albuquerque Silva, F. Dahia, C. Romero

Publication date 12 May 2017

Published in Physics Letters B (Search for Journal in Brave)

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1311.4751

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

String and superstring theories; other extended objects (e.g., branes) in quantum field theory (81T30) Kaluza-Klein and other higher-dimensional theories (83E15)

Abstract: In the fat brane model, also known as the split fermion model, it is assumed that leptons and baryons live in different hypersurfaces of a thick brane in order to explain the proton stability without invoking any symmetry. It turns out that, in the presence of a gravity source $M$, particles will see different four-dimensional (4D) geometries and hence, from the point of view of 4D-observers, the equivalence principle will be violated. As a consequence, we show that a hydrogen atom in the gravitational field of $M$ will acquire a radial electric dipole. This effect is regulated by the Hamiltonian $H_d=-mumathbfAcdotmathbfdeltar$, which is the gravitational analog of the Stark Hamiltonian, where the electric field is replaced by the tidal acceleration $mathbfA$ due to the split of fermions in the brane and the atomic reduced mass $mu$ substitutes the electric charge.

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