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A New Dark Matter Candidate in Low-Tension Brane-Worlds

Author(s) -

José A. R. Cembranos

Publication year - 2005

Publication title -

osti oai (u.s. department of energy office of scientific and technical information)

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Reports

DOI - 10.2172/839638

Subject(s) - brane , physics , dark matter , gravitation , extra dimensions , theoretical physics , wimp , degrees of freedom (physics and chemistry) , particle physics , brane cosmology , space (punctuation) , dimension (graph theory) , classical mechanics , quantum mechanics , linguistics , philosophy , mathematics , pure mathematics

Brane world theories contain additional degrees of freedom related to the geometry of the extra dimension space which can be understood as brane oscillations (branons). In the case where the fundamental gravitational scale is much larger than the brane tension scale, these branons are the only extra degrees of freedom at low energies coming from the extra dimensions. Branons are generically stable, weakly interacting and massive. They could be produced in the next generation colliders and at the same time they are natural WIMP like candidates for dark matter.

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