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Introduction to localization of Elko spinor fields on branes

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In 2004, Dharam Vir Ahluwalia and Daniel Grumiller discovered a dark matter candidate called Elko: spin one-half fermions with mass dimension one. These fermions are described by a spinorial Klein-Gordon formalism and very different from electrons or neutrinos. In this review, we give a brief introduction to the localization of Elko spinor fields on branes. First, we briefly review some brane-world theories and the localization of bulk matter fields on branes. Then, after a brief introduction to Elko spinor fields, we focus on the localization of Elko fields on branes in three cases: the free Elko fields, the Elko fields with Yukawa-like coupling, and finally, the Elko fields with non-minimal coupling.

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Zhou, XN., Liu, YX. Introduction to localization of Elko spinor fields on branes. Eur. Phys. J. Spec. Top. 229, 2043–2078 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1140/epjst/e2020-900274-4

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