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John March-Russell

Professor of Theoretical Physics and Senior Research Fellow, New College, Oxford; Perimeter Institute Distinguished Visiting Research Chair

Research theme

  • Particle astrophysics & cosmology
  • Fundamental particles and interactions
  • Fields, strings, and quantum dynamics

Sub department

  • Rudolf Peierls Centre for Theoretical Physics

Research groups

  • Particle theory
  • AION/Magis
John.March-Russell@physics.ox.ac.uk
Telephone: 01865 (2)73630
Rudolf Peierls Centre for Theoretical Physics, room 60.05
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Rapid Asymmetric Inflation and Early Cosmology in Theories with Sub-Millimeter Dimensions

ArXiv hep-ph/9903224 (1999)

Authors:

Nima Arkani-Hamed, Savas Dimopoulos, Nemanja Kaloper, John March-Russell

Abstract:

It was recently pointed out that the fundamental Planck mass could be close to the TeV scale with the observed weakness of gravity at long distances being due the existence of new sub-millimeter spatial dimensions. In this picture the standard model fields are localized to a $(3+1)$-dimensional wall or ``3-brane''. We show that in such theories there exist attractive models of inflation that occur while the size of the new dimensions are still small. We show that it is easy to produce the required number of efoldings, and further that the density perturbations $\delta\rho/\rho$ as measured by COBE can be easily reproduced, both in overall magnitude and in their approximately scale-invariant spectrum. In the minimal approach, the inflaton field is just the moduli describing the size of the internal dimensions, the role of the inflationary potential being played by the stabilizing potential of the internal space. We show that under quite general conditions, the inflationary era is followed by an epoch of contraction of our world on the brane, while the internal dimensions slowly expand to their stabilization radius. We find a set of exact solutions which describe this behavior, generalizing the well-known Kasner solutions. During this phase, the production of bulk gravitons remains suppressed. The period of contraction is terminated by the blue-shifting of Hawking radiation left on our wall at the end of the inflationary de Sitter phase. The temperature to which this is reheated is consistent with the normalcy bounds. We give a precise definition of the radion moduli problem.
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Rapid Asymmetric Inflation and Early Cosmology in Theories with Sub-Millimeter Dimensions

(1999)

Authors:

Nima Arkani-Hamed, Savas Dimopoulos, Nemanja Kaloper, John March-Russell
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Early inflation and cosmology in theories with sub-millimeter dimensions

AIP CONF PROC 478 (1999) 237-243

Authors:

N Arkani-Hamed, S Dimopoulos, N Kaloper, J March-Russell

Abstract:

We discuss early cosmology in theories where the fundamental Planck mass is close to the TeV scale. In such theories the standard model fields are localized to a (3 + 1)-dimensional wall with n new transverse sub-millimeter sized spatial dimensions. The topic touched upon include: early inflation that occurs while the size of the new dimensions are still small, the spectrum and magnitude of density perturbations, the post-inflation era of contraction of our world while the internal dimensions evolve to their final "large" radius, and the production of gravitons in the bulk during these two eras. The radion moduli problem is also discussed.
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Neutrino Masses from Large Extra Dimensions

ArXiv hep-ph/9811448 (1998)

Authors:

Nima Arkani-Hamed, Savas Dimopoulos, Gia Dvali, John March-Russell

Abstract:

Recently it was proposed that the standard model (SM) degrees of freedom reside on a $(3+1)$-dimensional wall or ``3-brane'' embedded in a higher-dimensional spacetime. Furthermore, in this picture it is possible for the fundamental Planck mass $\mst$ to be as small as the weak scale $\mst\simeq O(\tev)$ and the observed weakness of gravity at long distances is due the existence of new sub-millimeter spatial dimensions. We show that in this picture it is natural to expect neutrino masses to occur in the $10^{-1} - 10^{-4}\ev$ range, despite the lack of any fundamental scale higher than $\mst$. Such suppressed neutrino masses are not the result of a see-saw, but have intrinsically higher-dimensional explanations. We explore two possibilities. The first mechanism identifies any massless bulk fermions as right-handed neutrinos. These give naturally small Dirac masses for the same reason that gravity is weak at long distances in this framework. The second mechanism takes advantage of the large {\it infrared} desert: the space in the extra dimensions. Here, small Majorana neutrino masses are generated by breaking lepton number on distant branes.
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Neutrino Masses from Large Extra Dimensions

(1998)

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Nima Arkani-Hamed, Savas Dimopoulos, Gia Dvali, John March-Russell
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