TASI Lectures on Extra Dimensions and Branes

Abstract

This is a pedagogical introduction into theories with branes and extra dimensions. We first discuss the construction of such models from an effective field theory point of view, and then discuss large extra dimensions and some of their phenomenological consequences. Various possible phenomena (split fermions, mediation of supersymmetry breaking and orbifold breaking of symmetries) are discussed next. The second half of this review is entirely devoted to warped extra dimensions, including the construction of the Randall-Sundrum solution, intersecting branes, radius stabilization, KK phenomenology and bulk gauge bosons.

85 pages, 21 figures

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• Self-tuning flat domain walls in 5d gravity and string theory
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• Unification and the Hierarchy from AdS5
• Single-Brane Cosmological Solutions with a Stable Compact Extra Dimension
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• The scalar sector of the Randall-Sundrum model
• Precision Electroweak Data and Unification of Couplings in Warped Extra Dimensions
• 4D Constructions of Supersymmetric Extra Dimensions and Gaugino Mediation
• Probing Kaluza-Klein Dark Matter with Neutrino Telescopes
• Grand Unification in RS1
• Unification of Gauge, Higgs and Matter in Extra Dimensions
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• Effective Field Theory and Unification in AdS Backgrounds
• Split Fermions in Extra Dimensions and CP Violation
• The Superpartner Spectrum of Gaugino Mediation
• Holographic evolution of gauge couplings
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• Instabilities of bulk fields and anomalies on orbifolds
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• Radius-dependent gauge unification in AdS5
• Black Diamonds at Brane Junctions
• Spectrum of TeV Particles in Warped Supersymmetric Grand Unification
• Systematics of Coupling Flows in AdS Backgrounds
• A New Angle on Intersecting Branes in Infinite Extra Dimensions
• New Ideas in Symmetry Breaking
• Late Inflation and the Moduli Problem of Sub-Millimeter Dimensions
• Seiberg-Witten Description of the Deconstructed 6D (0,2) Theory

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