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Gravity-mediated Dark Matter in Clockwork/Linear Dilaton Extra-Dimensions

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2020-04-13 v2 High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena

Abstract

We study for the first time the possibility that Dark Matter (represented by particles with spin 0,1/20,1/2 or 11) 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 mDM[1,15]m_{\rm DM} \in [1, 15] TeV for a 5-dimensional gravitational scale M5M_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.

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@article{arxiv.1912.02689,
  title  = {Gravity-mediated Dark Matter in Clockwork/Linear Dilaton Extra-Dimensions},
  author = {Miguel G. Folgado and Andrea Donini and Nuria Rius},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1912.02689},
  year   = {2020}
}

Comments

26 pages, 6 figures. Published version. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1907.04340

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