Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Theory
Scientific paper
2002-06-17
Phys.Rev.Lett. 89 (2002) 171301
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Theory
12 pages
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevLett.89.171301
We study in a self-consistent way the impact of the emission of bulk gravitons on the (homogeneous) cosmology of a three-brane embedded in a five-dimensional spacetime. In the low energy regime, we recover the well known result that the bulk affects the Friedmann equation only via a radiation-like term $\C/a^4$, called dark or Weyl radiation. By contrast, in the high energy regime, we find that the Weyl parameter $\C$ is no longer constant but instead grows very rapidly as $\C\propto a^4$. As a consequence, the value of $\C$ today is not a free parameter as usually considered but is a fixed number, which, generically, depends only on the number of relativistic degrees of freedom at the high/low energy transition. Our estimated amount of Weyl radiation satisfies the present nucleosynthesis bounds.
Langlois David
Rodriguez-Martinez Maria
Sorbo Lorenzo
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