208 research outputs found
Branonium
We study the bound states of brane/antibrane systems by examining the motion
of a probe antibrane moving in the background fields of N source branes. The
classical system resembles the point-particle central force problem, and the
orbits can be solved by quadrature. Generically the antibrane has orbits which
are not closed on themselves. An important special case occurs for some
Dp-branes moving in three transverse dimensions, in which case the orbits may
be obtained in closed form, giving the standard conic sections but with a
nonstandard time evolution along the orbit. Somewhat surprisingly, in this case
the resulting elliptical orbits are exact solutions, and do not simply apply in
the limit of asymptotically-large separation or non-relativistic velocities.
The orbits eventually decay through the radiation of massless modes into the
bulk and onto the branes, and we estimate this decay time. Applications of
these orbits to cosmology are discussed in a companion paper.Comment: 34 pages, LaTeX, 4 figures, uses JHEP
Inflation on Fractional Branes: D--Brane Inflation as D--Term Inflation
We describe a D--brane inflation model which consists of two fractional D3
branes separated on a transverse . Inflation arises due to the
resolved orbifold singularity of which corresponds to an anomalous D--term
on the brane. We show that D--brane inflation in the bulk corresponds to
D--term inflation on the brane. The inflaton and the trigger field parametrize
the interbrane distances on an respectively. After inflation the
branes reach a supersymmetric configuration in which they are at the origin of
but separated along the directions.Comment: 15 pages in phyzzx.tex; minor corrections including all factors of
2\pi; v3: more minor correction
Axionic D3-D7 Inflation
We study the motion of a D3 brane moving within a Type IIB string vacuum
compactified to 4D on K3 x T_2/Z_2 in the presence of D7 and O7 planes. We work
within the effective 4D supergravity describing how the mobile D3 interacts
with the lightest bulk moduli of the compactification, including the effects of
modulus-stabilizing fluxes. We seek inflationary solutions to the resulting
equations, performing our search numerically in order to avoid resorting to
approximate parameterizations of the low-energy potential. We consider
uplifting from D-terms and from the supersymmetry-breaking effects of anti-D3
branes. We find examples of slow-roll inflation (with anti-brane uplifting)
with the mobile D3 moving along the toroidal directions, falling towards a
D7-O7 stack starting from the antipodal point. The inflaton turns out to be a
linear combination of the brane position and the axionic partner of the K3
volume modulus, and the similarity of the potential along the inflaton
direction with that of racetrack inflation leads to the prediction n_s \le 0.95
for the spectral index. The slow roll is insensitive to most of the features of
the effective superpotential, and requires a one-in-10^4 tuning to ensure that
the torus is close to square in shape. We also consider D-term inflation with
the D3 close to the attractive D7, but find that for a broad (but not
exhaustive) class of parameters the conditions for slow roll tend to
destabilize the bulk moduli. In contrast to the axionic case, the best
inflationary example of this kind requires the delicate adjustment of potential
parameters (much more than the part-per-mille level), and gives inflation only
at an inflection point of the potential (and so suffers from additional
fine-tuning of initial conditions to avoid an overshoot problem).Comment: 29 pages, 5 figure
Fibre Inflation: Observable Gravity Waves from IIB String Compactifications
We introduce a simple string model of inflation, in which the inflaton field
can take trans-Planckian values while driving a period of slow-roll inflation.
This leads naturally to a realisation of large field inflation, inasmuch as the
inflationary epoch is well described by the single-field scalar potential . Remarkably, for a broad class of vacua
all adjustable parameters enter only through the overall coefficient , and
in particular do not enter into the slow-roll parameters. Consequently these
are determined purely by the number of \e-foldings, , and so are not
independent: . This implies similar
relations among observables like the primordial scalar-to-tensor amplitude,
, and the scalar spectral tilt, : . is
itself more model-dependent since it depends partly on the post-inflationary
reheat history. In a simple reheating scenario a reheating temperature of
GeV gives , corresponding to and , within reach of future observations. The model is
an example of a class that arises naturally in the context of type IIB string
compactifications with large-volume moduli stabilisation, and takes advantage
of the generic existence there of Kahler moduli whose dominant appearance in
the scalar potential arises from string loop corrections to the Kahler
potential. The inflaton field is a combination of Kahler moduli of a K3-fibered
Calabi-Yau manifold. We believe there are likely to be a great number of models
in this class -- `high-fibre models' -- in which the inflaton starts off far
enough up the fibre to produce observably large primordial gravity waves.Comment: Extended calculations beyond the leading approximations, including
numerical integrations of multi-field evolution; Display an example with ; Simplify the discussion of large fields; Corrected minor errors and
typos; Added references; 41 pages LaTeX, 25 figure
Dielectric (p,q) Strings in a Throat
We calculate the (p,q) string spectrum in a warped deformed conifold using
the dielectric brane method. The spectrum is shown to have the same functional
form as in the dual picture of a wrapped D3-brane with electric and magnetic
fluxes on its world volume. The agreement is exact in the limit where q is
large. We also calculate the dielectric spectrum in the S-dual picture. The
spectrum in the S-dual picture has the same form as in the original picture but
it is not exactly S-dual invariant due to an interchange of Casimirs of the
non-Abelian gauge symmetries. We argue that in order to restore S-duality
invariance the non-Abelian brane action should be refined, probably by a better
prescription for the non-Abelian trace operation
DBI Lifshitz Inflation
A new model of DBI inflation is introduced where the mobile brane, the
inflaton field, is moving relativistically inside a Lifshitz throat with an
arbitrary anisotropic scaling exponent . After dimensional reduction to four
dimension the general covariance is broken explicitly both in the matter and
the gravitational sectors. The general action for the metric and matter field
perturbations are obtained and it is shown to be similar to the classifications
made in the effective field theory of inflation literature.Comment: Version 3: minor typos corrected, the JCAP published versio
Kahler Moduli Inflation
We show that under general conditions there is at least one natural
inflationary direction for the Kahler moduli of type IIB flux
compactifications. This requires a Calabi-Yau which has h^{2,1}>h^{1,1}>2 and
for which the structure of the scalar potential is as in the recently found
exponentially large volume compactifications. We also need - although these
conditions may be relaxed - at least one Kahler modulus whose only
non-vanishing triple-intersection is with itself and which appears by itself in
the non-perturbative superpotential. Slow-roll inflation then occurs without a
fine tuning of parameters, evading the eta problem of F-term inflation. In
order to obtain COBE-normalised density perturbations, the stabilised volume of
the Calabi-Yau must be O(10^5-10^7) in string units, and the inflationary scale
M_{infl} ~ 10^{13} GeV. We find a robust model independent prediction for the
spectral index of 1 - 2/N_e = 0.960 - 0.967, depending on the number of
efoldings.Comment: 17 pages, 1 figure; v2. references adde
de Sitter String Vacua from Supersymmetric D-terms
We propose a new mechanism for obtaining de Sitter vacua in type IIB string
theory compactified on (orientifolded) Calabi-Yau manifolds similar to those
recently studied by Kachru, Kallosh, Linde and Trivedi (KKLT). dS vacuum
appears in KKLT model after uplifting an AdS vacuum by adding an anti-D3-brane,
which explicitly breaks supersymmetry. We accomplish the same goal by adding
fluxes of gauge fields within the D7-branes, which induce a D-term potential in
the effective 4D action. In this way we obtain dS space as a spontaneously
broken vacuum from a purely supersymmetric 4D action. We argue that our
approach can be directly extended to heterotic string vacua, with the dilaton
potential obtained from a combination of gaugino condensation and the D-terms
generated by anomalous U(1) gauge groups.Comment: 17 pages, 1 figur
Multiple Inflation, Cosmic String Networks and the String Landscape
Motivated by the string landscape we examine scenarios for which inflation is
a two-step process, with a comparatively short inflationary epoch near the
string scale and a longer period at a much lower energy (like the TeV scale).
We quantify the number of -foldings of inflation which are required to yield
successful inflation within this picture. The constraints are very sensitive to
the equation of state during the epoch between the two inflationary periods, as
the extra-horizon modes can come back inside the horizon and become
reprocessed. We find that the number of -foldings during the first
inflationary epoch can be as small as 12, but only if the inter-inflationary
period is dominated by a network of cosmic strings (such as might be produced
if the initial inflationary period is due to the brane-antibrane mechanism). In
this case a further 20 -foldings of inflation would be required at lower
energies to solve the late universe's flatness and horizon problems.Comment: 27 pages, 6 figures; v2: refences adde
D-Brane Chemistry
We study several different kinds of bound states built from D-branes and
orientifolds. These states are to atoms what branonium - the bound state of a
brane and its anti-brane - is to positronium, inasmuch as they typically
involve a light brane bound to a much heavier object with conserved charges
which forbid the system's decay. We find the fully relativistic motion of a
probe Dp'-brane in the presence of source Dp-branes is integrable by
quadratures. Keplerian conic sections are obtained for special choices for p
and p' and the systems are shown to be equivalent to nonrelativistic systems.
Their quantum behaviour is also equivalent to the corresponding
non-relativistic limit. In particular the p=6, p'=0 case is equivalent to a
non-relativistic dyon in a magnetic monopole background, with the trajectories
in the surface of a cone. We also show that the motion of the probe branes
about D6-branes in IIA theory is equivalent to the motion of the corresponding
probes in the uplift to M-theory in 11 dimensions, for which there are no
D6-branes but their fields are replaced by a particular Taub-NUT geometry. We
further discuss the interactions of D-branes and orientifold planes having the
same dimension. this system behaves at large distances as a brane-brane system
but at shorter distances it does not have the tachyon instability.Comment: ref. added and typos correcte
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