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Gamma-ray spectrum from gravitino dark matter decay

  • Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY)

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Abstract

Gravitinos are very promising candidates for the cold dark matter of the Universe. Interestingly, to achieve a sufficiently long gravitino lifetime, R parity conservation is not required, thus preventing any dangerous cosmological influence of the next-to-lightest supersymmetric particle. When R parity is violated, gravitinos decay into photons and other particles with a lifetime much longer than the age of the Universe, producing a diffuse gamma-ray flux with a characteristic spectrum that could be measured in future experiments, such as GLAST or AMS-02. In this Letter we compute the energy spectrum of photons from gravitino decay and discuss its main qualitative features.

Original languageEnglish
Article number061301
JournalPhysical Review Letters
Volume100
Issue number6
DOIs
StatePublished - 13 Feb 2008
Externally publishedYes

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