Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Scientific paper
2001-02-27
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Based on invited plenary talks at the 4th International Workshop on Particle Physics and the Early Universe (COSMO-2000), Chej
Scientific paper
Supersymmetric extensions of the Standard Model when combined with the Peccei-Quinn solution to the strong CP problem necessarily contain also the axino, the fermionic partner of the axion. In contrast to the neutralino and the gravitino, the axino mass is generically not of the order of the supersymmetry breaking scale and can be much smaller. The axino is therefore an intriguing candidate for a stable superpartner. The axinos are a natural candidate for cold dark matter in the Universe when they are generated non-thermally through out-of-equilibrium neutralino decays or via a competing thermal production mechanism through scatterings and decays of particles in the plasma. We identify axino masses in the range of tens of MeV to several GeV (depending on the scenario) as corresponding to cold axino relics if the reheating temperature T_R is less than about 5 \times 10^4 GeV. At higher T_R and lower mass, axinos could constitute warm dark matter. In the scenario with axinos as stable relics the gravitino problem finds a natural solution. The lightest superpartner of the Standard Model spectrum will remain stable in high-energy detectors but may be either neutral or charged. The usual constraint Omega*h^2<1 on the relic abundance of the lightest neutralino does not hold.
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