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Title: The right-handed sneutrino as thermal dark matter in U(1) extensions of the MSSM

Journal Article · · Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics
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  1. LAPTH, Université de Savoie, CNRS, 9 Chemin de Bellevue, 74940 Annecy-le-Vieux (France)

We investigate the parameter space of a supersymmetric model with an extended U(1) gauge symmetry in which the RH sneutrino is a thermal dark matter candidate. In this scenario, annihilation of RH sneutrinos proceeds mainly through Higgs or Z' exchange. We find that sneutrinos in the mass range from 50 GeV to more than 1 TeV can be consistent with both the WMAP limit and the direct detection upper limits. Powerful constraints from new gauge boson searches at the LHC as well as from ΔM{sub s} are incorporated. Depending on the choice of the U(1) charge, these scenarios will be further probe by direct dark matter searches as well as by Higgs searches at the LHC.

OSTI ID:
22279713
Journal Information:
Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, Vol. 2011, Issue 12; Other Information: Country of input: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA); ISSN 1475-7516
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English