Brane Vector Phenomenology

TL;DR

This paper explores the phenomenology of brane vectors, massive vector fields arising from brane oscillations, analyzing their interactions with the Standard Model and deriving experimental constraints from collider and dark matter data.

Contribution

It introduces a model-independent method to derive brane vector couplings using nonlinear realizations of broken higher-dimensional symmetries.

Findings

Constraints on brane vector parameters from LEP collider data.

Dark matter constraints further limit the parameter space.

The approach provides a framework for testing brane world models against experimental data.

Abstract

Local oscillations of the brane world are manifested as masssive vector fields. Their coupling to the Standard Model can be obtained using the method of nonlinear realizations of the spontaneously broken higher dimensional space-time symmetries, and to an extent, are model independent. Phenomenological limits on these vector field parameters are obtained using LEP collider data and dark matter constraints.