Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Theory
Scientific paper
2006-02-14
JCAP 0606 (2006) 011
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Theory
53 pages; v3, appendix and comments added, JCAP version
Scientific paper
10.1088/1475-7516/2006/06/011
Towards the end of brane inflation, the brane pair annihilation produces massive closed strings. The transfer of this energy to Standard Model (SM) open string modes depends on where the SM branes and the brane annihilation are located: in the bulk, in the same throat or in different throats. We find that, in all cases as long as the brane annihilation and the SM branes are not both in the bulk, the transfer of energy to start the hot big bang epoch can be efficient enough to be compatible with big bang nucleosynthesis. The suppression of the abundance of the graviton and its Kaluza-Klein (KK) thermal relics follows from the warped geometry in flux compactification. This works out even in the scenarios where a long period of tunneling is expected. In the multi-throat scenario, we find a dynamical mechnism of selecting a long throat as the SM throat. We establish three new dark matter candidates: KK modes with specific angular momentum in the SM throat, those in the brane annihilation throat, and different matters generated by KK modes tunneled to other throats. Since the latter two couple to the visible matter sector only through graviton mediation, they behave as hidden dark matter. Hidden dark matter has novel implications on the dark matter coincidence problem and the high energy cosmic rays.
Chen Xingang
Henry Tye S.-H.
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