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Large extra dimensions, the galaxy power spectrum and the end of inflation

arXiv:hep-ph/0111435 · doi:10.1088/1126-6708/2002/02/024

Abstract

We consider the production of gravitational KK modes via cosmological photon-photon and electron-positron annihilation in models with large factorisable extra dimensions. We place constraints on this production using recent results from a joint analysis of the power spectra of the 2dF Galaxy Redshift Survey (2dFGS) and the cosmic microwave background (CMB) anisotropies. We obtain a more accurate upper limit for the temperature corresponding to matter-radiation equality and show that, even for the case of 6 extra dimensions and a fundamental scale of 1 TeV, a period of inflation is required that ends at a temperature much lower than that of the QCD phase transition.

12 pages, 2 figures, hadronic branching+typos corrected,accepted in JHEP

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