
JOINT PARTICLE SEMINAR
Date: Wednesday,
8 December 2004
Time:
3:00 p.m.
Place: 4135 Frederick Reines Hall
Speaker:
Mitsuru Kakizaki, University of Tokyo
Title:
Large Enhancement of KK Dark Matter Annihilation Rates due to
Threshold Singularity
Abstract:
We reconsider pair annihilation processes of dark matter in the
framework of universal extra dimensions, in which all the standard
model particles propagate. In such scenarios, as a consequence of
Kaluza-Klein (KK) parity the first excitation mode of the B boson is a
viable candidate of cold dark matter, and the Fourier expanded modes
are almost degenerate in mass at each KK level. We point out that the
KK dark matter annihilation cross section is significantly enhanced
due to the threshold singularity in the non-relativistic limit.
Consequently the predicted positron flux is increased compared with
that at the tree level. The operative and future positron experiments
will serve as good probes to distinguish physics beyond the standard
model.
Host: J. Feng