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Aether compactification

Carroll, Sean M. and Tam, Heywood (2008) Aether compactification. Physical Review D, 78 (4). Art. No. 044047. ISSN 2470-0010. doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.78.044047. https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechAUTHORS:CARprd08

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Abstract

We propose a new way to hide large extra dimensions without invoking branes, based on Lorentz-violating tensor fields with expectation values along the extra directions. We investigate the case of a single vector aether field on a compact circle. In such a background, interactions of other fields with the aether can lead to modified dispersion relations, increasing the mass of the Kaluza-Klein excitations. The mass scale characterizing each Kaluza-Klein tower can be chosen independently for each species of scalar, fermion, or gauge boson. No small-scale deviations from the inverse square law for gravity are predicted, although light graviton modes may exist.


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Carroll, Sean M.0000-0002-4226-5758
Additional Information:©2008 The American Physical Society. (Received 8 April 2008; published 29 August 2008) We are very grateful to Mark Wise for helpful conversations. This research was supported in part by the U.S. Department of Energy and by the David and Lucile Packard Foundation.
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David and Lucile Packard FoundationUNSPECIFIED
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DOI:10.1103/PhysRevD.78.044047
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