Cargese lectures on extra-dimensions

• Published in: Particle Physics and Cosmology: The Interface, vol. 188, p. 461-517
• Series: Nato Science Series, Series Ii: Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry
• Springer, 2005

I give a pedagogical introduction to the concepts and the tools that are necessary to study particle physics models in higher dimensions. I then give a more detailed presentation of warped compactifications and discuss their possible relevance to the hierarchy problem.

Keywords: extra-dimensions ; branes ; effective action ; effective field theories ; gravity ; hierarchy ; Kaluza-Klein fields ; large extra-dimensions ; the ; Randall-Sundrum model ; radions ; moduli ; LOCALIZED GRAVITY ; COLLIDER SIGNALS ; HIERARCHY ; COMPACTIFICATION ; RELATIVITY ; MILLIMETER ; FIELD ; LHC

Note:

Conference of the NATO-Advanced-Study-Institute on Particle Physics and Cosmology - The Interface

Cargese, FRANCE, AUG 04-16, 2003

NATO Adv Study Inst

Reference

• EPFL-CHAPTER-152052

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