Goldstone-Soliton Interactions and Brane World Neutrinos

TL;DR

This paper explores how Goldstone particles interact with solitons, revealing non-derivative interactions in certain contexts, and applies this to brane world models suggesting neutrinos could be Goldstone particles from broken supersymmetry.

Contribution

It demonstrates non-derivative Goldstone-soliton interactions and proposes neutrinos as Goldstone particles in brane world scenarios.

Findings

Goldstone particles can have non-derivative interactions with solitons.

Neutrinos in brane worlds may be Goldstone particles of broken supersymmetry.

Implications for brane physics and particle interactions.

Abstract

We discuss the interactions of Goldstone particles with solitonic states. We observe that, contrary to the familiar situation in the vacuum sector, the Goldstone particles can have non-derivative interactions with the solitons. This result is applied to brane physics and in particular leads to the possibility that neutrinos in brane world scenarios are Goldstone particles for broken supersymmetry.