Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Scientific paper
2002-06-06
Nucl.Phys.B650:391-419,2003
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
31 pages, 12 figures; v2: A couple of references added, a few minor clarifications (on KK parity and on the 6d case)
Scientific paper
10.1016/S0550-3213(02)01012-X
In models with universal extra dimensions (i.e. in which all Standard Model fields, including fermions, propagate into compact extra dimensions) momentum conservation in the extra dimensions leads to the conservation of Kaluza--Klein (KK) number at each vertex. KK number is violated by loop effects because of the orbifold imposed to reproduce the chiral Standard Model with zero modes, however, a KK parity remains at any order in perturbation theory which leads to the existence of a stable lightest KK particle (LKP). In addition, the degeneracy in the KK spectrum is lifted by radiative corrections so that all other KK particles eventually decay into the LKP. We investigate cases where the Standard Model lives in five or six dimensions with compactification radius of TeV$^{-1}$ size and the LKP is the first massive state in the KK tower of either the photon or the neutrino. We derive the relic density of the LKP under a variety of assumptions about the spectrum of first tier KK modes. We find that both the KK photon and the KK neutrino, with masses at the TeV scale, may have appropriate annihilation cross sections to account for the dark matter, $\Omega_M \sim 0.3$.
Servant Geraldine
Tait Tim M. P.
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