Bulk photons in asymmetrically warped spacetimes and non-trivial vacuum refractive index

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2009, Issue 1, 2009, Pages

  Farakos, K ^b   Mavromatos, N E ^a   Pasipoularides, P ^b  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Classical theories of gravity; Field theories in higher dimensions; High energy cosmic rays; Large extra dimensions

Indexed keywords

EID: 63649085576     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2009/01/057     Document Type: Article

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