Thick branes in extra dimensions and suppressed dark couplings
Abstract
The nature of dark matter (DM) and how it may interact with the various fields of the Standard Model (SM) remains a mystery. In this paper we show that the interaction between new light dark matter mediators and the SM particles can be naturally suppressed if one employs a single, flat extra dimension (ED). In this setup, the SM fields are localized in a finite width ‘fat’ brane, similar to models of Universal Extra Dimensions (UED), while DM, in turn, is confined to a thin brane at the opposite end of the ED interval. Including brane localized kinetic terms on the fat brane for the mediator fields, the resulting coupling between the SM and these light mediators can be several orders of magnitude smaller than the corresponding ones between the mediators and DM which we assume to be a typical gauge coupling. We investigate the implications of this scenario for both vector (i.e, dark photon, DP) and scalar mediator fields in the 5-D bulk. In this setup kinetic mixing, which is usually employed to suppress light mediator couplings, is not required. Here we assume that the SM particles couple to the DP via their B - L charges while themore »
- Authors:
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- SLAC National Accelerator Lab., Menlo Park, CA (United States)
- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- SLAC National Accelerator Lab., Menlo Park, CA (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1546918
- Grant/Contract Number:
- AC02-76SF00515
- Resource Type:
- Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- Journal of High Energy Physics (Online)
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Name: Journal of High Energy Physics (Online); Journal Volume: 2019; Journal Issue: 6; Journal ID: ISSN 1029-8479
- Publisher:
- Springer Berlin
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 72 PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS; Phenomenology of Field Theories in Higher Dimensions
Citation Formats
Landim, Ricardo G., and Rizzo, Thomas G. Thick branes in extra dimensions and suppressed dark couplings. United States: N. p., 2019.
Web. doi:10.1007/jhep06(2019)112.
Landim, Ricardo G., & Rizzo, Thomas G. Thick branes in extra dimensions and suppressed dark couplings. United States. doi:https://doi.org/10.1007/jhep06(2019)112
Landim, Ricardo G., and Rizzo, Thomas G. Fri .
"Thick branes in extra dimensions and suppressed dark couplings". United States. doi:https://doi.org/10.1007/jhep06(2019)112. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1546918.
@article{osti_1546918,
title = {Thick branes in extra dimensions and suppressed dark couplings},
author = {Landim, Ricardo G. and Rizzo, Thomas G.},
abstractNote = {The nature of dark matter (DM) and how it may interact with the various fields of the Standard Model (SM) remains a mystery. In this paper we show that the interaction between new light dark matter mediators and the SM particles can be naturally suppressed if one employs a single, flat extra dimension (ED). In this setup, the SM fields are localized in a finite width ‘fat’ brane, similar to models of Universal Extra Dimensions (UED), while DM, in turn, is confined to a thin brane at the opposite end of the ED interval. Including brane localized kinetic terms on the fat brane for the mediator fields, the resulting coupling between the SM and these light mediators can be several orders of magnitude smaller than the corresponding ones between the mediators and DM which we assume to be a typical gauge coupling. We investigate the implications of this scenario for both vector (i.e, dark photon, DP) and scalar mediator fields in the 5-D bulk. In this setup kinetic mixing, which is usually employed to suppress light mediator couplings, is not required. Here we assume that the SM particles couple to the DP via their B - L charges while the DP couples to the DM via a dark charge. Both the vector DP couplings and the corresponding Higgs portal couplings with the SM are shown to be natural small in magnitude with a size dependent on ratio of the 5-D compactification radius, R-1 ~ 0.1-1 GeV, and the SM brane thickness, L-1 ~ 2-10 TeV, a range chosen to avoid LHC and other experimental constraints. In this framework one can obtain the observed value of the DM relic abundance for a wide range of parameter choices, while the constrains due to direct DM detection and the invisible width of the Higgs do not impose significant challenges to the model. Finally, this mechanism can lead to distinct signatures in both present and upcoming experiments as it combines some common features of UED and DP models in a single ED setup.},
doi = {10.1007/jhep06(2019)112},
journal = {Journal of High Energy Physics (Online)},
number = 6,
volume = 2019,
place = {United States},
year = {2019},
month = {6}
}
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