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Gravity-mediated dark matter in clockwork/linear dilaton extra-dimensions
Miguel G. FolgadoNuria RiusAndrea Doninisubject
Nuclear and High Energy PhysicsParticle physicsDark matterFOS: Physical sciencesStrings and branes phenomenology01 natural sciencesStandard ModelGravitationHigh Energy Physics::TheoryGeneral Relativity and Quantum CosmologyHigh Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)Phenomenology of Field Theories in Higher Dimensions0103 physical scienceslcsh:Nuclear and particle physics. Atomic energy. Radioactivity010306 general physicsSpin (physics)PhysicsHigh Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)Annihilation010308 nuclear & particles physicsGravitonHigh Energy Physics - PhenomenologyExtra dimensionslcsh:QC770-798DilatonAstrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomenadescription
We study for the first time the possibility that Dark Matter (represented by particles with spin $0,1/2$ or $1$) interacts gravitationally with Standard Model particles in an extra-dimensional Clockwork/Linear Dilaton model. We assume that both, the Dark Matter and the Standard Model, are localized in the IR-brane and only interact via gravitational mediators, namely the Kaluza-Klein (KK) graviton and the radion/KK-dilaton modes. We analyse in detail the Dark Matter annihilation channel into Standard Model particles and into two on-shell Kaluza-Klein towers (either two KK-gravitons, or two radion/KK-dilatons, or one of each), finding that it is possible to obtain the observed relic abundance via thermal freeze-out for Dark Matter masses in the range $m_{\rm DM} \in [1, 15]$ TeV for a 5-dimensional gravitational scale $M_5$ ranging from 5 to a few hundreds of TeV, even after taking into account the bounds from LHC Run II and irrespectively of the DM particle spin.
| year | journal | country | edition | language |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020-04-01 | Journal of High Energy Physics |