Odd Decays from Even Anomalies: Gauge Mediation Signatures Without SUSY

Abstract

We analyze the theory and phenomenology of anomalous global chiral symmetries in the presence of an extra dimension. We propose a simple extension of the Standard Model in 5D whose signatures closely resemble those of supersymmetry with gauge mediation, and we suggest a novel scalar dark matter candidate.

26 pages, 1 figure; v2: references added; discussion of direct collider constraints added; v3: corrected dark matter calculation in chapter 4.2 and replaced figure 1;