Gravitino dark matter in R-parity breaking vacua

Wilfried Buchmüller, Laura Covi, Koichi Hamaguchi, Alejandro Ibarra, Tsutomu T. Yanagida

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Abstract

We show that in the case of small R-parity and lepton number breaking couplings, primordial nucleosynthesis, thermal leptogenesis and gravitino dark matter are naturally consistent for gravitino masses m3/25 GeV. We present a model where R-parity breaking is tied to B-L breaking, which predicts the needed small couplings. The metastable next-to-lightest superparticle has a decay length that is typically larger than a few centimeters, with characteristic signatures at the LHC. The photon flux produced by relic gravitino decays may be part of the apparent excess in the extragalactic diffuse gamma-ray flux obtained from the EGRET data for a gravitino mass m 3/2 ∼ 10 GeV. In this case, a clear signal can be expected from GLAST in the near future.

Original languageEnglish
Article number037
JournalJournal of High Energy Physics
Volume2007
Issue number3
DOIs
StatePublished - 1 Mar 2007
Externally publishedYes

Keywords

  • Cosmology of theories beyond the SM
  • Supergravity models
  • Supersymmetry phenomenology

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