Cosmology of brane models with radion stabilization

Journal Article · Tue Aug 15 04:00:00 EDT 2000 · Physical Review. D, Particles Fields

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.62.045015· OSTI ID:20217393

Csaki, Csaba ^[1]; Graesser, Michael ^[2]; Randall, Lisa ^[3]; Terning, John ^[4]

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1. Theory Division T-8, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico 87545 (United States)
2. Department of Physics, University of California, Santa Cruz, California 95064 (United States)
3. Department of Physics, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey 08544 (United States)
4. Department of Physics, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138 (United States)

We analyze the cosmology of the Randall-Sundrum model and that of compact brane models in general in the presence of a radius stabilization mechanism. We find that the expansion of our Universe is generically in agreement with the expected effective four dimensional description. The constraint (which is responsible for the appearance of nonconventional cosmologies in these models) that must be imposed on the matter densities on the two branes in the theory without a stabilized radius is a consequence of requiring a static solution even in the absence of stabilization. Such constraints disappear in the presence of a stablizing potential, and the ordinary Friedmann-Robertson-Walker (FRW) equations are reproduced, with the expansion driven by the sum of the physical values of the energy densities on the two branes and in the bulk. For the case of the Randall-Sundrum model we examine the kinematics of the radion field, and find that corrections to the standard FRW equations are small for temperatures below the weak scale. We find that the radion field has renormalizable and unsuppressed couplings to standard model particles after electroweak symmetry breaking. These couplings may have important implications for collider searches. We comment on the possibility that matter off the TeV brane could serve as a dark matter candidate. (c) 2000 The American Physical Society.

• OSTI ID: 20217393
• Journal Information: Physical Review. D, Particles Fields, Journal Name: Physical Review. D, Particles Fields Journal Issue: 4 Vol. 62; ISSN PRVDAQ; ISSN 0556-2821
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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