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arxiv: 0710.3272 · v1 · submitted 2007-10-17 · ✦ hep-th

The fermion spectrum in braneworld collisions

classification ✦ hep-th
keywords branebraneworldspectrumboundarycollisionsfermionkinkslocalised
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In braneworld collisions fermions originally localised on one brane can be transferred to another brane, or to a space-time boundary. By modelling branes as scalar field kinks we bounce them off boundaries and study resulting effects according to a braneworld observer. Extending on our previous work, we numerically compute the spectrum of excitations of fermion modes localised on the brane and boundary, in terms of the momentum $k$ along the brane dimensions. We find that the spectrum depends strongly on collision velocity and fermion-scalar coupling. Also, high-momentum modes tend to ``fall off'' the kinks and become delocalised radiation.

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