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Informal Pizza SeminarWarped unification, proton stability and dark matterGeraldine ServantUniversity of ChicagoWe address the problem of baryon number violation in warped geometry, and more specifically in warped Grand Unified Theories. We show that its solution leads to the stability of a light Kaluza-Klein fermion (in analogy with supersymmetry, where the simplest solution to proton stability leads to the stability of the Lightest Susy Particle) which can be a good dark matter candidate. This can be seen as an extension of the possibility of Kaluza-Klein dark matter (so far restricted to flat geometries) to warped geometry. These models possess various distinctive experimental signatures which will allow them to be tested in the near future.
Monday, July 5th 2004, 13:00
Ernest Rutherford Physics Building, room 326 |