Resonant particle production in branonium
- Rudolf Peierls Centre for Theoretical Physics, Department of Physics, University of Oxford, 1 Keble Road, Oxford OX1 3NP (United Kingdom)
We study the mechanism of particle production in the world volume of a probe D6-brane (or D6 with supersymmetry (SUSY) breaking) moving in the background created by a fixed stack of D6-branes. We show that this may occur in a regime of parametric resonance when the probe's motion is nonrelativistic and it moves at large distances from the source branes in low eccentricity orbits. This leads to an exponential growth of the particle number in the probe's world volume and constitutes an effective mechanism for producing very massive particles. We also analyze the evolution of this system in an expanding universe and how this affects the development of the parametric resonance. We discuss the effects of transverse space compactification on the probe's motion, showing that it leads to the creation of angular momentum in a similar way to the Affleck-Dine mechanism for baryogenesis. Finally, we describe possible final states of the system and their potential relevance to cosmology.
- OSTI ID:
- 21205233
- Journal Information:
- Physical Review. D, Particles Fields, Vol. 77, Issue 12; Other Information: DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.77.126004; (c) 2008 The American Physical Society; Country of input: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA); ISSN 0556-2821
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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