
JOINT PARTICLE SEMINAR
Date: Wednesday,
9 November 2005
Time:
3:00 p.m.
Place: 4135 Frederick Reines Hall
Speaker:
Nemanja Kaloper, UC Davis
Title:
Shock Therapy
Abstract:
We construct exact gravitational field solutions for a relativistic
particle localized on a tensional brane in brane-induced gravity. They are
a generalization of gravitational shock waves in 4D de Sitter space. We
provide the metrics for both the normal branch and the self-inflating
branch DGP braneworlds, and compare them to the 4D Einstein gravity
solution and to the case when gravity resides only in the 5D bulk, without
any brane-localized curvature terms. At short distances the wave profile
looks the same as in four dimensions. The corrections appear only far from
the source, where they differ from the long distance corrections in 4D de
Sitter space. We also discover a new non-perturbative channel for energy
emission into the bulk from the self-inflating branch, when gravity is
modified at the de Sitter radius.
Host: J. Feng