Modified large distance Newton potential on a Gauss-Bonnet brane world

Gravity on a brane world with higher order curvature terms and a conformally coupled bulk scalar field is investigated. Solutions with nonstandard large distance gravity are described. It is not necessary to include a scalar field potential in order to obtain the solutions. The resulting Newton potential is qualitatively similar to that of the Dvali-Gabadadze-Porrati (DGP) model. For suitable parameter choices the model is ghost free. Like many other brane gravity models with modified large distance Newton potentials, the short distance gravity is scalar-tensor. The scalar couples with gravitational strength, and so the model is not compatible with observation