Warped Kaluza-Klein Dark Matter
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Abstract: (arXiv)
Warped compactifications of type IIB string theory contain natural dark matter candidates: Kaluza-Klein modes along approximate isometry directions of long warped throats. These isometries are broken by the full compactification, including moduli stabilization; we present a thorough survey of Kaluza-Klein mode decay rates into light supergravity modes and Standard Model particles. We find that these dark matter candidates typically have lifetimes longer than the age of the universe. Interestingly, some choices for embedding the Standard Model in the compactification lead to decay rates large enough to be observed, so this dark matter sector may provide constraints on the parameter space of the compactification.Note:
- 37pp; v2. references, minor clarification
- Cosmology of Theories beyond the SM
- Strings and branes phenomenology
- Flux compactifications
- dark matter: Kaluza-Klein
- compactification: warped
- moduli: stability
- dark matter: decay rate
- supergravity
- string model
- lifetime
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