Direct Detection of Dark Matter in the MSSM with Non-Universal Higgs Masses

Details Direct Detection of Dark Matter in the MSSM with Non-Universal Higgs Masses Direct Detection of Dark Matter in the MSSM with Non-Universal Higgs Masses

2003-02-04

arxiv.org/abs/hep-ph/0302032v1

Phys.Rev.D67:123502,2003

Physics

High Energy Physics

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

30 pages LaTeX, 40 eps figures

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevD.67.123502

We calculate dark matter scattering rates in the minimal supersymmetric extension of the Standard Model (MSSM), allowing the soft supersymmetry-breaking masses of the Higgs multiplets, m_{1,2}, to be non-universal (NUHM). Compared with the constrained MSSM (CMSSM) in which m_{1,2} are required to be equal to the soft supersymmetry-breaking masses m_0 of the squark and slepton masses, we find that the elastic scattering cross sections may be up to two orders of magnitude larger than values in the CMSSM for similar LSP masses. We find the following preferred ranges for the spin-independent cross section: 10^{-6} pb \ga \sigma_{SI} \ga 10^{-10} pb, and for the spin-dependent cross section: 10^{-3} pb \ga \sigma_{SD}, with the lower bound on \sigma_{SI} dependent on using the putative constraint from the muon anomalous magnetic moment. We stress the importance of incorporating accelerator and dark matter constraints in restricting the NUHM parameter space, and also of requiring that no undesirable vacuum appear below the GUT scale. In particular, values of the spin-independent cross section another order of magnitude larger would appear to be allowed, for small \tan \beta, if the GUT vacuum stability requirement were relaxed, and much lower cross-section values would be permitted if the muon anomalous magnetic moment constraint were dropped.

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