Speaker
Heinrich Paes
(University of Alabama)
Description
Theories with large extra dimensions have provided new perspectives on a
plethora of old problems in particle physics and cosmology. Interesting
applications include the amelioration of the large hierarchy between the weak
and the Planck scale, the generation of small neutrino masses and the
prediction of quatum gravity effects at energy scales around a TeV.
Also a non-inflationary solution to the cosmological horizon problem has been
advocated, due to graviton shortcuts in
the extra-dimensional bulk. The talk introduces a new consequence of extra
dimensions, namely neutrino oscillations due to sterile neutrino shortcuts in
the extra dimension. This scenario abolishes the contradiction of the LSND
neutrino oscillation experiment with other short-baseline experiments and/or
solar and atmospheric neutrino oscillation results. It also provides a unique
solution to the anomalous events at low energies in the MiniBooNE experiment.
Author
Heinrich Paes
(University of Alabama)
