Elastic Scattering and Direct Detection of Kaluza-Klein Dark Matter

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2002-09-23

arxiv.org/abs/hep-ph/0209262v4

NewJ.Phys.4:99,2002

Physics

High Energy Physics

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

23 pages, 11 figures; v2,v3: Ref. added, discussion improved, conclusions unchanged. v4: Introduction was expanded to be more

Scientific paper

10.1088/1367-2630/4/1/399

Recently a new dark matter candidate has been proposed as a consequence of universal compact extra dimensions. It was found that to account for cosmological observations, the masses of the first Kaluza-Klein modes (and thus the approximate size of the extra dimension) should be in the range 600-1200 GeV when the lightest Kaluza-Klein particle (LKP) corresponds to the hypercharge boson and in the range 1 - 1.8 TeV when it corresponds to a neutrino. In this article, we compute the elastic scattering cross sections between Kaluza-Klein dark matter and nuclei both when the lightest Kaluza-Klein particle is a KK mode of a weak gauge boson, and when it is a neutrino. We include nuclear form factor effects which are important to take into account due to the large LKP masses favored by estimates of the relic density. We present both differential and integrated rates for present and proposed Germanium, NaI and Xenon detectors. Observable rates at current detectors are typically less than one event per year, but the next generation of detectors can probe a significant fraction of the relevant parameter space.

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