2:30 pm Monday, 3 February 2003
I will discuss a weakly-interacting massive dark matter candidate which is a natural consequence of theories with universal compact extra dimensions. I will begin with a brief introduction to universal extra dimensions from a particle physics perspective, and show how to construct a realistic effective theory description. This will be followed by discussion of the various dark matter candidates, computation of their relic densities, and direct and indirect detection issues. The favored scenario will have a WIMP which is a KK mode of a weak gauge boson with a mass ranging from several hundred GeV to more than one TeV.
Paper references: Is the Lightest Kaluza-Klein Particle a Viable Dark Matter Candidate? -- G. Servant & T. Tait
and Elastic Scattering and Direct Detection of Kaluza-Klein Dark Matter -- G. Servant & T. Tait