Living on a brane

Abstract

We briefly review the distinctive signals of brane world models with low tension. We pay special attention to the brane fluctuations (branons), whose phenomenological consequences could be important both in high energy particle physics experiments and in astrophysical and cosmological observations.

4 pages, 1 figure. Proceedings of the 29th Spanish Physical Royal Society Biennial on the centennial of the society, Madrid, Spain, July 2003