High Energy Physics - Phenomenology, abstract
hep-ph/0612137

From: Dan Hooper [view email]

Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2006 21:04:50 GMT (127kb)

Distinguishing Supersymmetry From Universal Extra Dimensions or Little Higgs Models With Dark Matter Experiments

Authors: Dan Hooper, Gabrijela Zaharijas

Comments: 23 pages, 7 figures

Report-no: FERMILAB-PUB-06-456-A

There are compelling reasons to think that new physics will appear at or below the TeV-scale. It is not known what form this new physics will take, however. Although The Large Hadron collider is very likely to discover new particles associated with the TeV-scale, it may be difficult for it to determine the nature of those particles, whether superpartners, Kaluza-Klein modes or other states. In this article, we consider how direct and indirect dark matter detection experiments may provide information complementary to hadron colliders, which can be used to discriminate between supersymmetry, models with universal extra dimensions, and Little Higgs theories. We find that, in many scenarios, dark matter experiments can be effectively used to distinguish between these possibilities.

http://arxiv.org/abs/hep-ph/0612137