Is Thick Brane Model Consistent with the Recent Observations?

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2007-05-26

arxiv.org/abs/0705.3894v2

Phys.Rev.D76:084037,2007

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

15 pages and 15 figures, V2: Added references and minor corrections, main results and conclusions unchanged

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevD.76.084037

There exist many observational evidences implying the expansion of our universe is undergoing a late-time acceleration, the mechanism of this acceleration is yet unknown. In the so-called thick brane model this phenomena is attributed to the thickness of the brane along the extra dimension. In this study we mainly rely to the consistency of this model with most recent observational data related to the background evolution. The new Supernova Type Ia (SNIa) Gold sample and Supernova Legacy Survey (SNLS) data, the position of the acoustic peak at the last scattering surface from the WMAP observations and the baryon acoustic oscillation peak found in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) are used to constrain the free parameter of the thick codimension 1 brane model. To infer its consistency with age of our universe, we compare the age of old cosmological objects with what computed using the best fit values for the model parameters. When the universe is matter dominated, $w=0$, at 68% level of confidence, the combination of Gold sample SNIa, CMB shift parameter and SDSS databases provides $\Omega_m=0.31_{-0.02}^{+0.02}$, $\Omega_{\cal{C}}=0.05_{-0.01}^{+0.01}$, $w_r=-1.40_{-0.20}^{+0.20}$, hence a spatially open universe with $\Omega_k=0.21_{-0.08}^{+0.08}$. The same combination with SNLS supernova observation gives $\Omega_m=0.28_{-0.02}^{+0.03}$, $\Omega_{\cal{C}}=0.037_{-0.004}^{+0.003}$, $w_r=-2.05_{-0.15}^{+0.15}$ consequently provides a spatially open universe $\Omega_k=0.11_{-0.07}^{+0.10}$. These results obviously seem to be in contradiction with the most recent WMAP results indicating a flat universe.

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