Fermions on Thick Branes in the Background of Sine-Gordon Kinks

Yu-Xiao Liu; Li-Da Zhang; Li-Jie Zhang; Yi-Shi Duan

doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.78.065025

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Fermions on Thick Branes in the Background of Sine-Gordon Kinks

arXiv:0804.4553 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.78.065025

Abstract

A class of thick branes in the background of sine-Gordon kinks with a scalar potential $V (ϕ) = p (1 + cos \frac{2 ϕ}{q})$ was constructed by R. Koley and S. Kar [Classical Quantum Gravity \textbf{22}, 753 (2005)]. In this paper, in the background of the warped geometry, we investigate the issue of localization of spin half fermions on these branes in the presence of two types of scalar-fermion couplings: $η Ψ ˉ ϕ Ψ$ and $η Ψ ˉ sin ϕ Ψ$ . By presenting the mass-independent potentials in the corresponding Schrödinger equations, we obtain the lowest Kaluza--Klein (KK) modes and a continuous gapless spectrum of KK states with $m^{2} > 0$ for both types of couplings. For the Yukawa coupling $η Ψ ˉ ϕ Ψ$ , the effective potential of the right chiral fermions for positive $q$ and $η$ is always positive, hence only the effective potential of the left chiral fermions could trap the corresponding zero mode. This is a well-known conclusion which had been discussed extensively in the literature. However, for the coupling $η Ψ ˉ sin ϕ Ψ$ , the effective potential of the right chiral fermions for positive $q$ and $η$ is no longer always positive. Although the value of the potential at the location of the brane is still positive, it has a series of wells and barriers on each side, which ensures that the right chiral fermion zero mode could be trapped. Thus we may draw the remarkable conclusion: for positive $η$ and $q$ , the potentials of both the left and right chiral fermions could trap the corresponding zero modes under certain restrictions.

22 pages, 21 figures, published version to appear in Phys. Rev. D

Fermions on Thick Branes in the Background of Sine-Gordon Kinks

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