Published December 2007
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Journal article
The fermion spectrum in braneworld collisions
Creators
- 1. School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Nottingham, University Park, Nottingham NG7 2RD (United Kingdom)
- 2. DAMTP, University of Cambridge, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WA (United Kingdom)
Description
In braneworld collisions fermions originally localised on one brane can be transferred to another brane, or to a space-time boundary. By modelling branes as scalar field kinks we bounce them off boundaries and study resulting effects according to a braneworld observer. Extending on our previous work, we numerically compute the spectrum of excitations of fermion modes localised on the brane and boundary, in terms of the momentum k along the brane dimensions. We find that the spectrum depends strongly on collision velocity and fermion-scalar coupling. Also, high-momentum modes tend to ''fall off'' the kinks and become delocalised radiation
Additional details
Identifiers
Publishing Information
- Journal Title
- Journal of High Energy Physics
- Journal Volume
- 2007
- Journal Issue
- 12
- Journal Page Range
- p. 053
- ISSN
- 1126-6708
INIS
- Country of Publication
- Italy
- Country of Input or Organization
- International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
- INIS RN
- 39044359
- Subject category
- S72: PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS;
- Descriptors DEI
- BRANES; COLLISIONS; COMPUTERIZED SIMULATION; COUPLING; ENERGY SPECTRA; EXCITATION; FERMIONS; QUANTUM FIELD THEORY; SCALAR FIELDS; SCALARS; SPACE-TIME
- Descriptors DEC
- ENERGY-LEVEL TRANSITIONS; FIELD THEORIES; SIMULATION; SPECTRA