High Energy Theory Lunchtime Seminar

Local oscillations of the brane world are manifested as massive vector fields. Their coupling to the Standard Model can be obtained using the method of nonlinear realizations of the spontaneously broken higher dimensional space-time symmetries, and to an extent, are model independent. Phenomenological limits on these vector field parameters are obtained using current collider data and dark matter constraints. The reach of a future linear collider and the LHC to further investigate the parameter space is determined.