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Setting Limits on Supersymmetry Using Simplified Models
Published on: November 15, 2013
Simultaneous solution to dark matter and flavor problems of supersymmetry
Jonathan L Feng1, Bryan T Smith, Fumihiro Takayama
1Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of California, Irvine, California 92697, USA.
Abstract:
Neutralino dark matter is well motivated, but also suffers from two shortcomings: it requires gravity-mediated supersymmetry breaking, which generically violates flavor constraints, and its thermal relic density Omega is typically too large. We propose a simple solution to both problems: neutralinos freeze-out with Omega approximately 10-100, but then decay to approximately 1 GeV gravitinos, which are simultaneously light enough to satisfy flavor constraints and heavy enough to be all of dark matter. This scenario is naturally realized in high-scale gauge-mediation models, ameliorates small scale structure problems, and implies that "cosmologically excluded" models may, in fact, be cosmologically preferred.
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