Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Scientific paper
2003-07-31
Phys.Rev.D68:085018,2003
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
19 pages, 1 figure
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevD.68.085018
In models of universal extra dimensions, gravity and all standard model fields propagate in the extra dimensions. Previous studies of such models have concentrated on the Kaluza-Klein (KK) partners of standard model particles. Here we determine the properties of the KK gravitons and explore their cosmological implications. We find the lifetimes of decays to KK gravitons, of relevance for the viability of KK gravitons as dark matter. We then discuss the primordial production of KK gravitons after reheating. The existence of a tower of KK graviton states makes such production extremely efficient: for reheat temperature T_RH and d extra dimensions, the energy density stored in gravitons scales as T_RH^{2+3d/2}. Overclosure and Big Bang nucleosynthesis therefore stringently constrain T_RH in all universal extra dimension scenarios. At the same time, there is a window of reheat temperatures low enough to avoid these constraints and high enough to generate the desired thermal relic density for KK WIMP and superWIMP dark matter.
Feng Jonathan L.
Rajaraman Arvind
Takayama Fumihiro
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