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- Title
Kinematics of radion field: a possible source of dark matter.
- Authors
Chakraborty, Sumanta; SenGupta, Soumitra
- Abstract
The discrepancy between observed virial and baryonic mass in galaxy clusters have lead to the missing mass problem. To resolve this, a new, non-baryonic matter field, known as dark matter, has been invoked. However, till date no possible constituents of the dark matter components are known. This has led to various models, by modifying gravity at large distances to explain the missing mass problem. The modification to gravity appears very naturally when effective field theory on a lower-dimensional manifold, embedded in a higher-dimensional spacetime is considered. It has been shown that in a scenario with two lower-dimensional manifolds separated by a finite distance is capable to address the missing mass problem, which in turn determines the kinematics of the brane separation. Consequences for galactic rotation curves are also described.
- Subjects
KINEMATICS; GALAXY clusters; MISSING mass problem (Astronomy); DARK matter; FIELD theory (Physics)
- Publication
European Physical Journal C -- Particles & Fields, 2016, Vol 76, Issue 12, p1
- ISSN
1434-6044
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1140/epjc/s10052-016-4512-z