Cosmological Constraints on Large Extra Dimensions
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2008-11-26 v3 Astrophysics
High Energy Physics - Theory
Abstract
We calculate the production of massive Kaluza-Klein(KK) modes via nucleon-nucleon gravi-bremsstrahlung in the early universe. Overproduction of these states would result in early matter domination and therefore a low age for the universe so it is possible to place constraints on the number and size of large extra dimensions. The constraints are stronger than those from Sn1987a - for 2 large extra dimensions and T_QCD=170 MeV, we show the fundamental scale must be larger than 1,000 TeV.
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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0101131,
title = {Cosmological Constraints on Large Extra Dimensions},
author = {Malcolm Fairbairn},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0101131},
year = {2008}
}
Comments
8 pages, 2 figures, accepted in PLB