Superstrings and dark matter
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2007-05-23 v1 Astrophysics
Abstract
We point out that the spectrum and interactions of light states of the heterotic string indicate a string scale close to the GUT scale, and a mass generating scale for the gravitationally interacting states around 10^9 GeV if these states contribute a large fraction to dark matter.
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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/9808245,
title = {Superstrings and dark matter},
author = {R. Dick and N. Eschrich and M. Gaul},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/9808245},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
7 pages, 1 figure, uses iopconf1.sty, to appear in the proceedings of DARK98, Heidelberg (Germany) 20-24 July 1998