Some problems with reproducing the Standard Model fields and interactions in five-dimensional warped brane world models

TL;DR

This paper investigates the theoretical challenges of reproducing Standard Model fields and interactions in five-dimensional warped brane world models, revealing necessary constraints for avoiding pathologies and achieving accurate low-energy effective theories.

Contribution

It identifies key constraints on fermion Lagrangians and Higgs profiles that are essential for consistent Standard Model reproduction in warped extra-dimensional models.

Findings

Constraints on fermion Lagrangian are necessary to avoid pathologies.

Exact Standard Model reproduction requires specific Higgs and metric profiles.

Deviations can lead to observable differences or theoretical inconsistencies.

Abstract

In the present paper we examine, from the purely theoretical point of view and in a model-independent way, the case, when matter, gauge and Higgs fields are allowed to propagate in the bulk of five-dimensional brane world models with compact extra dimension, and the Standard Model fields and their interactions are supposed to be reproduced by the corresponding zero Kaluza-Klein modes. An unexpected result is that in order to avoid possible pathological behavior in the fermion sector, it is necessary to impose constraints on the fermion field Lagrangian. In the case when the fermion zero modes are supposed to be localized at one of the branes, these constraints imply an additional relation between the vacuum profile of the Higgs field and the form of the background metric. Moreover, this relation between the vacuum profile of the Higgs field and the form of the background metric results in the exact reproduction of the gauge boson and fermion sectors of the Standard Model by the corresponding zero mode four-dimensional effective theory in all the physically relevant cases, allowed by the absence of pathologies. Meanwhile, deviations from these conditions can lead either back to pathological behavior in the fermion sector or to a variance between the resulting zero mode four-dimensional effective theory and the Standard Model, which, depending on the model at hand, may, in principle, result in constraints putting the theory out of the reach of the present day experiments.