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PHYSICAL REVIEW D
Volume 75, Issue 8, Pages -Publisher
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.75.085003
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We consider the possibility that a massive fourth family neutrino, predicted by a recently proposed minimal technicolor theory, could be the source of the dark matter in the Universe. The model has two techniflavors in the adjoint representation of a SU(2) techicolor gauge group and its consistency requires the existence of a fourth family of leptons. By a suitable hypercharge assignment the techniquarks together with the new leptons look like a conventional fourth standard model family. We show that the new (Majorana) neutrino N can be the dark matter particle if m(N)similar to 100-500 GeV and the expansion rate of the Universe at early times is dominated by an energy component scaling as rho(phi) similar to a(-6) (kination), with rho(phi) / rho(rad) similar to 10(-6) during the nucleosynthesis era.
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