Warped Passages - Lisa Randall [240]
in the bulk 405
and supersymmetry 346, 347
interactions 201, 208, 231, 323
intrinsic spin 281, 323
and mass 208–9, 210, 213–20, 241–2, 245, 247, 249, 251, 254, 324–5, 325, 394
polarizations 197, 209, 217; see also mass
strong see gluons
and symmetry 197, 200–201
weak see weak gauge bosons
gaugino mediation 347–8
gauginos 263, 345–6, 350
Gauss, Carl Friedrich 104–5, 106
Geiger, Hans 126–7
Gell-Mann, Murray 171, 172, 176, 228n
general relativity 58, 85–6, 95–114,
and black holes 67, 112
and brane-worlds 83
and curvature of spacetime 103
fails when applied to tiny length scales 278
and a fourth dimension 34
and GPS 84–5, 113
and quantum mechanics 278–83, 301
and special relativity 94
and string theory 68, 95
tests of 100–102
generations 175–6, 177
geodesics 108–9, 111
geometry
differential 106, 108
Euclid’s five fundamental postulates 104
five-dimensional 388, 388, 390
higher-dimensional 343–4, 387
non-Euclidean 104–7
spacetime 110, 111, 112, 309, 478n32
warped see warped geometry, RS1, RS2
Georgi, Howard 68, 233–8, 270, 296
Georgi-Glashow Grand Unification symmetry group 476n22
Giudice, Gian 346
Glashow, Sheldon 68, 163, 168–9, 217, 233–8, 270, 296
Gliozzi, Ferdinando 262
Global Positioning System (GPS) 84–5, 111
gluinos 263, 269, 478n30
gluons 156, 171, 173, 174, 182, 200–201, 232, 378–9, 379, 404
Goldberger, Walter 402, 403, 404
Golden, Mitch 187, 188
Gol’fand, Y.A. 259n, 261
Grand Unified Theory (GUT) 222, 233–8, 239, 241, 246
Georgi-Glashow paper (1974) 235–6
the hierarchy problem in 243–6
and the Hoøava-Witten brane-world 332
proton decay prediction 236–7
and RS1 404–7
scale mass 247, 248
and string theory 293, 301
gravitational constant 145, 187, 398
gravitational field lines 424–5, 426
gravitational fields 153
and general relativity 109, 278
localized near a brane 426
and the spacetime fabric 107, 109, 111, 114
see also ADD; locally localized gravity; RS1; RS2
gravitational force law 42–6, 86–8, 145, 251, 279, 281, 367, 370, 373, 374, 376, 429, 430, 439, 443
with extra dimensions 42–8
gravitational lensing 102
gravitational mass 96
gravitational redshift 100, 101
gravitino 262
graviton 148, 281, 302, 327, 366, 377, 398, 416, 442
and supersymmetry 262
higher-dimensional 378, 387, 392–3, 392, 398
and high-energy interactions 281, 282, 288
and anomaly-mediation 344–5
intrinsic spin 281
KK partners 377–80, 387, 413, 428–32
localized 421–8, 445
mass 442–3
massless 170, 442, 443
probability function 391, 392, 392, 393, 395, 400, 407, 410, 416n, 423–4, 424, 425, 427, 431, 438, 442, 479n35
gravity
and acceleration 86, 87, 96–7, 100, 101, 102–3, 109
and brane-worlds 327–8
and branes 51, 58, 59, 61, 327, 333
and curved space 6, 17
Earth and 86, 87, 98–9
five-dimensional 411, 412, 443
four-dimensional 34, 370, 371, 398, 422, 423, 429, 431, 434, 439, 440, 441–2, 443
higher-dimensional 251–2, 369, 372, 374, 379, 380, 381, 384
inverse square law 43, 45, 46, 145, 279
localized (RS2) 427–8, 432, 436–7, 438, 443
locally localized 437–44
and mass 96, 279
Newtonian (classical) 86–8, 109, 112, 145, 380, 473n8
and Planck scale energy 136, 145, 149, 280, 479n34
and Planck scale length 35, 279–80
and Planck scale mass 249, 371–2
and quantum mechanics 80, 279–81, 293, 294, 295
quantum theory of 145, 282, 301, 316
relating higher-and lower-dimensional gravity 369, 370–71, 374
and spacetime 111
spreads through all dimensions 327, 333
and the Standard Model 78, 249, 291
strength dependent on position along the fifth dimension 61, 393
and string theory 5, 33, 69
and supersymmetry breaking 345
and unification 237
and volume 479n34
weakness of 6, 8, 80, 86, 87, 168, 174, 250, 251, 254–5, 279, 280, 328, 363, 366–9, 371–4, 383, 386, 387, 393, 395, 396, 397, 416n, 417n
see also general relativity
Gravitybrane 392, 393–401, 399, 412–13, 414n, 415n, 417n, 418n, 420, 422–4, 427, 429, 430, 431, 437, 438, 443, 449, 450
Green, Michael 289–92
Greene, Brian: Elegant Universe 37n
Gregory, Ruth 323, 328, 432n
Grojean, Christophe