Do observations offer evidence for cosmological-scale extra dimensions?

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作者
Afshordi, Niayesh [1 ]
Geshnizjani, Ghazal [1 ]
Khoury, Justin [1 ,2 ]
机构
[1] Perimeter Inst Theoret Phys, Waterloo, ON N2L 2Y5, Canada
[2] Univ Penn, Ctr Particle Cosmol, Philadelphia, PA USA
来源
JOURNAL OF COSMOLOGY AND ASTROPARTICLE PHYSICS | 2009年 / 08期
关键词
cosmology with extra dimensions; cosmological applications of theories with extra dimensions; LY-ALPHA FOREST; POWER SPECTRUM; PROBE; GRAVITY; PERTURBATIONS; ENERGY; BRANE;
D O I
10.1088/1475-7516/2009/08/030
中图分类号
P1 [天文学];
学科分类号
0704 ;
摘要
We present a case that current observations may already indicate new gravitational physics on cosmological scales. The excess of power seen in the Lyman-alpha forest and small-scale CMB experiments, the anomalously large bulk flows seen both in peculiar velocity surveys and in kinetic SZ, and the higher ISW cross-correlation all indicate that structure may be more evolved than expected from ACDM. While these anomalies may constitute a statistical fluke or may eventually disappear as systematic effects are better understood, we argue that they can be explained in models with infinite-volume (or, at least, cosmological- size) extra dimensions, where the graviton is a resonance with a tiny width. The longitudinal mode of the graviton mediates an extra scalar force which speeds up structure formation at late times, thereby accounting for the above anomalies. The required graviton Compton wavelength is relatively small compared to the present Hubble radius, of order 300-600 Mpc. Moreover, with certain assumptions about the behavior of the longitudinal mode on super-Hubble scales, our modified gravity framework can also alleviate the tension with the low quadrupole and the peculiar vanishing of the CMB correlation function on large angular scales, seen both in COBE and WMAP. This relies on a novel mechanism that cancels a late-time ISW contribution against the primordial Sachs-Wolfe amplitude.
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