Phenomenology of Infrared Smooth Warped Extra Dimensions

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We study the effect of the infrared (IR) geometry on the phenomenology of warped extra dimensions with gauge and fermion fields in the bulk.

• We focus in particular on a "mass gap" metric which is AdS in the ultraviolet, but asymptotes to flat space in the IR, breaking conformal symmetry.
• These metrics can be dialed to approximate well the geometries arising in certain classes of warped string compactifications.
• We find, similar to our earlier results on the Kaluza-Klein (KK) graviton, that these metrics give rise to phenomenologically significant shifts in the separation of KK gauge modes in the mass spectrum (up to factors of ~2) and their couplings to IR localized fields (up to factors of ~5-10 increase).