Effective description of brane terms in extra dimensions
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Materia
Beyond Standard Model Extra large dimension Field theories in higher dimensions
Date
2006Referencia bibliográfica
Águila, F.; Pérez-Victoria, M.; Santiago, J. Effective description of brane terms in extra dimensions. Journal of High Energy Physics, 10: 056 (2006). [http://hdl.handle.net/10481/30723]
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This work has been partially supported by URA under Contract No. DE-AC02-76CH03000 with the US DOE, by MEC (FPA 2003-09298-C02-01), and by Junta de Andalucía (FQM 101).Résumé
We study how theories defined in (extra-dimensional) spaces with localized defects can be described perturbatively by effective field theories in which the width of the defects vanishes. These effective theories must incorporate a ``classical'' renormalization, and we propose a renormalization prescription a la dimensional regularization for codimension 1, which can be easily used in phenomenological applications. As a check of the validity of this setting, we compare some general predictions of the renormalized effective theory with those obtained in a particular ultraviolet completion based on deconstruction.