Planck-scale effects on WIMP dark matter

There exists a widely known conjecture that gravitational effects violate global symmetries. We study the effect of global-symmetry violating higher-dimension operators induced by Planck-scale physics on the properties of WIMP dark matter. Using an effective description, we show that the lifetime of...

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Main Authors: Sofiane M Boucenna, Jose W.F. Valle, Roberto eLineros
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2014-01-01
Series:Frontiers in Physics
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fphy.2013.00034/full