Neutralino dark matter from heavy gravitino decay

Journal Article · Sat Oct 15 04:00:00 EDT 2005 · Physical Review. D, Particles Fields

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.72.083510· OSTI ID:20713710

Kohri, Kazunori ^[1]; Yamaguchi, Masahiro ^[2]; Yokoyama, Jun'ichi ^[3]

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1. Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, 60 Garden Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138 (United States)
2. Department of Physics, Tohoku University, Sendai 980-8578 (Japan)
3. Department of Earth and Space Science, Graduate School of Science, Osaka University, Toyonaka 560-0043 (Japan)

We propose a new scenario of nonthermal production of neutralino cold dark matter, in which the overproduction problem of lightest supersymmetric particles (LSPs) in the standard thermal history is naturally solved. The mechanism requires a heavy modulus field which decays mainly to ordinary particles releasing large entropy to dilute gravitinos produced just after inflation and thermal relics of LSPs. Significant amount of gravitinos are also pair-produced at the decay, which subsequently decay into the neutralinos. We identify the regions of the parameter space in which the requisite abundance of the neutralino dark matter is obtained without spoiling the big-bang nucleosynthesis by injection of hadronic showers from gravitino decay. The neutralino abundance obtained in this mechanism is insensitive to the details of the superparticle mass spectrum, unlike the standard thermal abundance. We also briefly mention the testability of the scenario in future experiments.

• OSTI ID: 20713710
• Journal Information: Physical Review. D, Particles Fields, Journal Name: Physical Review. D, Particles Fields Journal Issue: 8 Vol. 72; ISSN PRVDAQ; ISSN 0556-2821
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

72 PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS
ABUNDANCE
CASCADE SHOWERS
ENTROPY
HADRONS
INFLATIONARY UNIVERSE
MASS SPECTRA
NONLUMINOUS MATTER
NUCLEOSYNTHESIS
PAIR PRODUCTION
PARTICLE DECAY
SPARTICLES