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UV sensitivity of Casimir energy

We quantitatively estimate the effect of the UV physics on the Casimir energy in a five-dimensional (5D) model on $S^1/Z_2$. If the cutoff scale of the 5D theory is not far from the compactification scale, the UV physics may affect the low energy result. We work in the cutoff regularization scheme by introducing two independent cutoff scales for the spatial momentum in the non-compact space and for the Kaluza-Klein masses. The effects of the UV physics are incorporated as a damping effect of the contributions to the vacuum energy around the cutoff scales. We numerically calculate the Casimir energy and evaluate the deviation from the result obtained in the zeta-function regularization, which does not include information on the UV physics. We find that the result well agrees with the latter for the Gaussian-type damping, while it can deviate for the kink-type one.