Kaluza-Klein relics from warped reheating
- Physics Department, McGill University, 3600 University Street, Montreal, Quebec, H3A 2T8 (Canada)
It has been suggested that after brane-antibrane inflation in a Klebanov-Strassler (KS) warped throat, metastable Kaluza-Klein excitations can be formed due to nearly-conserved angular momenta along isometric directions in the throat. If sufficiently long lived, these relics could conflict with big bang nucleosynthesis or baryogenesis by dominating the energy density of the Universe. We make a detailed estimate of the decay rate of such relics using the low-energy effective action of type IIB string theory compactified on the throat geometry, with attention to powers of the warp factor. We find that it is necessary to turn on supersymmetry (SUSY)-breaking deformations of the KS background in order to ensure that the most dangerous relics will decay fast enough. The decay rate is found to be much larger than the naive guess based on the dimension of the operators which break the angular isometries of the throat. For an inflationary warp factor of order w{approx}10{sup -4}, we obtain the bound M{sub 3/2} > or approx. 10{sup 9} GeV on the scale of SUSY breaking to avoid cosmological problems from the relics, which is satisfied in the Kachru, Kallosh, Linde, and Trivedi construction assumed to stabilize the compactification. Given the requirement that the relics decay before nucleosynthesis or baryogenesis, we place bounds on the mass of the relic as a function of the warp factor in the throat for more general warped backgrounds.
- OSTI ID:
- 21205165
- Journal Information:
- Physical Review. D, Particles Fields, Vol. 77, Issue 12; Other Information: DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.77.123522; (c) 2008 The American Physical Society; Country of input: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA); ISSN 0556-2821
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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