Branons as dark matter
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2016-11-09 v1 Astrophysics
High Energy Physics - Theory
Abstract
In the brane-world scenario with low tension, brane fluctuations (branons) together with the Standard Model particles are the only relevant degrees of freedom at low energies. Branons are stable, weakly interacting, massive particles and their relic abundance can account for the dark matter of the universe. In a certain range of the parameter space, they could be detectable by future direct search experiments.
Cite
@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0402142,
title = {Branons as dark matter},
author = {J. A. R. Cembranos and A. Dobado and A. L. Maroto},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0402142},
year = {2016}
}
Comments
Contribution to the Tenth Marcel Grossmann Meeting on General Relativity. 3 pages, 1 figure, uses ws-proc