Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Scientific paper
2009-06-25
JHEP 0908:086,2009
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
11 pages, 5 figures
Scientific paper
10.1088/1126-6708/2009/08/086
We consider a small extension of the standard model by adding two Majorana fermions; those are adjoint representations of the SU(2)_L and SU(3)_c gauge groups of the standard model. In this extension, the gauge coupling unification at an energy scale higher than 10^{15} GeV is realized when the masses of the triplet and the octet fermions are smaller than 10^4 GeV and 10^{12} GeV, respectively. We also show that an appropriate symmetry ensures a long lifetime of the neutral component of the triplet fermion whose thermal relic density naturally explains the observed dark matter density. The electron/positron excesses observed in recent cosmic-ray experiments can be also explained by the decay of the triplet fermion.
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