Aether compactification

作者:Carroll Sean M*; Tam Heywood
来源:Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology, 2008, 78(4): 044047.
DOI:10.1103/PhysRevD.78.044047

摘要

We propose a new way to hide large extra dimensions without invoking branes, based on Lorentz-violating tensor fields with expectation values along the extra directions. We investigate the case of a single vector aether field on a compact circle. In such a background, interactions of other fields with the aether can lead to modified dispersion relations, increasing the mass of the Kaluza-Klein excitations. The mass scale characterizing each Kaluza-Klein tower can be chosen independently for each species of scalar, fermion, or gauge boson. No small-scale deviations from the inverse square law for gravity are predicted, although light graviton modes may exist.

  • 出版日期2008-8