Lifetimes of light stringy states
arXiv:2112.00404 · doi:10.1016/j.nuclphysb.2022.115749
Abstract
In this paper, we evaluate the lifetime of the light stringy states that emerge in intersecting D-brane realisations of the Standard Model. For concreteness, we focus on a light massive scalar decaying into two massless fermions. Given the present experimental lower bounds of the string scale, we extrapolate the lifetime as a function of the intersection angles to very small angles in order to have states with lifetimes of the order of the universe. That provides an alluring example of a massive, very weakly interacting field with a huge lifetime, proposing itself as a potential dark matter candidate.
14 pages, 3 figures
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