Extra-dimensional cosmology with domain-wall branes

Details Extra-dimensional cosmology with domain-wall branes Extra-dimensional cosmology with domain-wall branes

2008-10-21

arxiv.org/abs/0810.3746v2

JHEP 0902:035,2009

Physics

High Energy Physics

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

23 pages; v2 has additional references and reflects journal version

Scientific paper

10.1088/1126-6708/2009/02/035

We show how to define a consistent braneworld cosmology in a model in which the brane is constructed as a field-theoretic domain wall of finite thickness. The Friedmann, Robertson-Walker metric is recovered in the region of the brane, but, remarkably, with scale factor that depends on particle energy and on particle species, constituting a breakdown of the weak equivalence principle on sufficiently small scales. This unusual effect comes from the extended nature of particles confined to a domain-wall brane, and the fact that they feel an "average" of the bulk spacetime. We demonstrate how to recover the standard results of brane cosmology in the infinitely-thin brane limit, and comment on how our results have the potential to place bounds on parameters such as the thickness of domain-wall braneworlds.

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