Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Theory
Scientific paper
2003-10-10
Phys.Rev.D69:065016,2004
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Theory
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevD.69.065016
In a two-dimensional toy model, motivated from five-dimensional heterotic M-theory, we study the collision of scalar field kinks with boundaries. By numerical simulation of the full two-dimensional theory, we find that the kink is always inelastically reflected with a model-independent fraction of its kinetic energy converted into radiation. We show that the reflection can be analytically understood as a fluctuation around the scalar field vacuum. This picture suggests the possibility of spontaneous emission of kinks from the boundary due to small perturbations in the bulk. We verify this picture numerically by showing that the radiation emitted from the collision of an initial single kink eventually leads to a bulk populated by many kinks. Consequently, processes changing the boundary charges are practically unavoidable in this system. We speculate that the system has a universal final state consisting of a stack of kinks, their number being determined by the initial energy.
Antunes Nuno D.
Copeland Edmund J.
Hindmarsh Mark
Lukas Andre
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