2000/07/18 by S. L. Dubovsky, Sergei L Dubovsky, V. A. Rubakov +3 · 93 citations
Physics and Astronomy · #Black Holes and Theoretical Physics #Brane #Charge (physics) #Charge conservation #Charged particle #Color charge #Electric charge #Electric field #High-Energy Particle Collisions Research #Photon #Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions #Quark #hep-ph #hep-th
paper · pdf · doi:10.1088/1126-6708/2000/08/041
published in Journal of High Energy Physics 2000(08), 041 (Springer Nature) · 14 pages, 4 figures, misprint corrected
arxiv created 2000/07/18 · openalex publication_date 2000/08/26 · arxiv updated 2009/11/30 · openalex created_date 2016/06/24 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05
We discuss whether electric charge conservation may not hold in four-dimensional world in models with infinite extra dimensions, i.e., whether escape of charged particles from our brane is consistent with effectively four-dimensional electrodynamics on the brane. We introduce a setup with photon localized on the brane and show that charge leakage into extra dimension is allowed within this setup. The electric field induced on the brane by escaping charge does not obey four-dimensional Maxwell's equations; this field gradually disappears in a causal way. We also speculate on the possibility of the escape of colored particles and formation of colorless free quark states on the brane.