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The Radion as a Dark Matter Candidate

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2018-08-28 v2

Abstract

I study a class of Randall-Sundrum (RS) models with Spontaneous Breaking of Scale Invariance (SBSI). This class of models implements the Contino-Pomarol-Rattazzi (CPR) mechanism to achieve SBSI through the small running of an external close-to-marginal scale-breaking operator that leads to a light dilaton/radion with couplings to matter suppressed by the small running. I show that for radion masses 1\lesssim 1 KeV, it can serve as a Dark Matter (DM) candidate, with a lifetime longer than the age of the universe, and show that the experimental bounds from LHC, Non-Newtonian Gravity and Axion-Like Particle (ALP) searches allow for the existence of such a radion.

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@article{arxiv.1803.01249,
  title  = {The Radion as a Dark Matter Candidate},
  author = {Fayez Abu-Ajamieh},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1803.01249},
  year   = {2018}
}

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26 pages, 9 figures)

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