Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Scientific paper
2004-04-23
Phys.Rev. D70 (2004) 063514
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
22 pages, updated figures and minor changes, version to appear in Phys. Rev. D
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevD.70.063514
Dark matter may be composed of superWIMPs, superweakly-interacting massive particles produced in the late decays of other particles. We focus on the case of gravitinos produced in the late decays of sleptons or sneutrinos and assume they are produced in sufficient numbers to constitute all of non-baryonic dark matter. At leading order, these late decays are two-body and the accompanying energy is electromagnetic. For natural weak-scale parameters, these decays have been shown to satisfy bounds from Big Bang nucleosynthesis and the cosmic microwave background. However, sleptons and sneutrinos may also decay to three-body final states, producing hadronic energy, which is subject to even more stringent nucleosynthesis bounds. We determine the three-body branching fractions and the resulting hadronic energy release. We find that superWIMP gravitino dark matter is viable and determine the gravitino and slepton/sneutrino masses preferred by this solution to the dark matter problem. In passing, we note that hadronic constraints disfavor the possibility of superWIMPs produced by neutralino decays unless the neutralino is photino-like.
Feng Jonathan L.
Su Shufang
Takayama Fumihiro
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