Eur. Phys. J. C (2015) 75: 48
https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-014-3251-2

Regular Article - Theoretical Physics

Localization of abelian gauge fields on thick branes

¹ Facultad de Ciencias, CUICBAS, Universidad de Colima, Bernal Díaz del Castillo 340, 28045, Colima, Mexico
² Facultad de Ciencias en Física y Matemáticas, Universidad Autónoma de Chiapas, Ciudad Universitaria, 29050, Tuxtla Gutiérrez, Mexico
³ Dipartimento di Scienze Fisiche, Informatiche e Matematiche, Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Via Campi 213/A, 41125, Modena, Italy

^* e-mail: cvaquera@ucol.mx

Received: 10 August 2014
Accepted: 26 December 2014
Published online: 3 February 2015

Abstract

In this work, we explore a mechanism for abelian gauge field localization on thick branes based on a five-dimensional Stueckelberg-like action. A normalizable zero mode is found through the identification of a suitable coupling function between the brane and the gauge field. The same mechanism is studied for the localization of the abelian Kalb–Ramond field.