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Large Extra Dimensions and Decaying KK Recurrences

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2008-11-26 v1 High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

We suggest the possibility that in ADD type brane-world scenarios, the higher KK excitations of the graviton may decay to lower ones owing to a breakdown of the conservation of extra dimensional ``momenta'' and study its implications for astrophysics and cosmology. We give an explicit realization of this idea with a bulk scalar field Φ\Phi, whose nonzero KK modes acquire vacuum expectation values. This scenario helps to avoid constraints on large extra dimensions that come from gamma ray flux bounds in the direction of nearby supernovae as well as those coming from diffuse cosmological gamma ray background. It also relaxes the very stringent limits on reheat temperature of the universe in ADD models.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0308051,
  title  = {Large Extra Dimensions and Decaying KK Recurrences},
  author = {R. N. Mohapatra and S. Nussinov and A. Perez-Lorenzana},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0308051},
  year   = {2008}
}

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16 pages, latex

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