Published August 15, 2007 | Version v1
Journal article

Constraints on the size of the extra dimension from Kaluza-Klein gravitino decay

  • 1. Institut de Physique Nucleaire de Lyon (IPNL), Universite Lyon-I, Villeurbanne (France)

Description

We study the consequences of the gravitino decay into dark matter. We suppose that the lightest neutralino is the main component of dark matter. In our framework the gravitino is heavy enough to decay before big bang nucleosynthesis starts. We consider a model coming from a five dimensional supergravity compactified on S1/Z2 with gravity in the bulk and matter localized on tensionless branes at the orbifold fixed points. We require that the dark matter, which is produced thermally and in the decay of Kaluza-Klein modes of the gravitino, has an abundance compatible with observation. We deduce from our model that there are curves of constraints between the size of the extra dimension and the reheating temperature of the Universe after inflation

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Journal Title
Physical Review. D, Particles Fields
Journal Volume
76
Journal Issue
4
Journal Page Range
p. 043507-043507.12
ISSN
0556-2821
CODEN
PRVDAQ

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(c) 2007 The American Physical Society