Implications of quantum gravity for dark matter in the brane-world scenario
arXiv:2211.07943 · doi:10.1016/j.physletb.2023.137930
Abstract
Based on the swampland program establishing the constraints that an effective field theory must satisfy in order to come from quantum gravity, we point to that if this program is true the brane-world scenario with the branon dark matter (DM) would be ruled out without needing the experimental observations. In other words, the constraints of quantum gravity imply that the branons must be absorbed by the Kaluza-Klein (KK) gauge bosons which are the off-diagonal components of the bulk metric to become their longitudinal modes. Interestingly, the KK gauge bosons behave as the DM and hence it leads to a geometric unification of gravity and the DM, as a natural feature of the brane-world scenario completed into quantum gravity in the ultraviolet. In addition, the KK gauge boson DM would open a particularly promising observation window to search for the DM coupling very weakly to the SM in the cosmic microwave background and the spectrum of the primordial gravitational waves.
7 pages, 2 figures
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