Brane worlds, brane worlds : it's party time : excellent
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Physics, 2001.
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| author | Katz, Emanuel |
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| spelling | mit-1721.1/86432019-04-11T10:29:27Z Brane worlds, brane worlds : it's party time : excellent Katz, Emanuel Lisa Randall. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Physics. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Physics. Physics. Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Physics, 2001. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 121-128). In recent years branes have had significant impact in the construction of higher dimensional theories of SUSY breaking, and of gravitational phenomena. In particular they provide strong motivation for considering anomaly mediation as a mechanism of SUSY breaking communication. Anomaly mediation provides a very predictive spectrum for the superpartner masses, which is quite model independent, and is given in terms of the beta functions and anomalous dimensions of the fields. This spectrum is also largely flavor blind, and thus does not suffer from flavor changing neutral current problems. Anomaly mediation, however, predicts negative slepton mass squardes. In this thesis we will try to address this problem by providing positive contributions to the slepton masses, through higher order SUSY breaking effects stemming from having additional heavy fields in the theory. We will also provide natural values for the Au and B parameters of the MSSM. Branes also allow for the surprising possibility that we may be living in a world with infinite extra dimensions with minor observational consequences. In this dissertation we will show that the RS2 and LR models, which have a single infinite dimension, are completely consistent and conform nicely with current experiments. We will also comment on possible holographic interpretations of these models as having 4D gravity coupled to a fully quantum conformal field theory. by Emanuel Katz. Ph.D. 2005-08-23T21:58:06Z 2005-08-23T21:58:06Z 2001 2001 Thesis http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/8643 49613034 eng M.I.T. theses are protected by copyright. They may be viewed from this source for any purpose, but reproduction or distribution in any format is prohibited without written permission. See provided URL for inquiries about permission. http://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/7582 128 leaves 8322929 bytes 8322687 bytes application/pdf application/pdf application/pdf Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
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| title | Brane worlds, brane worlds : it's party time : excellent |
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