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arXiv 0812.2244astro-phgr-qchep-phhep-th
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宇宙尺度额外维度的观测证据

Observational Evidence for Cosmological-Scale Extra Dimensions

Niayesh Afshordi, Ghazal Geshnizjani, Justin Khoury

摘要:

我们提出的情况下,目前的观测可能已经表明新的引力物理宇宙尺度。在莱曼α森林和小规模CMB实验中看到的功率过剩,在特殊速度调查和动力学SZ中看到的异常大的整体流量,以及较高的ISW互相关都表明结构可能比LCDM预期的更进化。我们认为,这些观测结果在具有无限体积(或者至少是宇宙尺寸)额外维度的模型中找到了一个自然的解释,其中引力子是一种具有微小宽度的共振。引力子的纵模介导了一种额外的标量力,它加速了后期结构的形成,从而解释了上述异常。所需的引力子康普顿波长与目前的哈勃半径相比相对较小,约为300-600 Mpc。此外,与某些假设的行为的纵向模式的超哈勃尺度上,我们修改后的重力框架也可以减轻紧张与低四极和奇特的消失的CMB关联函数在大角度尺度上,看到在COBE和WMAP。这依赖于一种新的机制,该机制取消了晚时间ISW对原始Sachs-Wolfe振幅的贡献。

英文摘要:

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 LCDM. We argue that these observations find a natural explanation 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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