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Indirect detection of gravitino dark matter including its three-body decays
It was recently pointed out that in supersymmetric scenarios with gravitino dark matter and bilinear R-parity violation, gravitinos with masses below Mw typically decay with a sizable branching ratio into the 3-body final states W^*+lepton and Z^*+neutrino. In this paper we study the indirect detect...
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author | Choi, Ki-Young Restrepo, Diego Yaguna, Carlos E Zapata, Oscar |
author_facet | Choi, Ki-Young Restrepo, Diego Yaguna, Carlos E Zapata, Oscar |
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description | It was recently pointed out that in supersymmetric scenarios with gravitino dark matter and bilinear R-parity violation, gravitinos with masses below Mw typically decay with a sizable branching ratio into the 3-body final states W^*+lepton and Z^*+neutrino. In this paper we study the indirect detection signatures of gravitino dark matter including such final states. First, we obtain the gamma ray spectrum from gravitino decays, which features a monochromatic contribution from the decay into photon+neutrino and a continuum contribution from the three-body decays. After studying its dependence on supersymmetric parameters, we compute the expected gamma ray fluxes and derive new constraints, from recent FERMI data, on the R-parity breaking parameter and on the gravitino lifetime. Indirect detection via antimatter searches, a new possibility brought about by the three-body final states, is also analyzed. For models compatible with the gamma ray observations, the positron signal is found to be negligible whereas the antiproton one can be significant. |
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spelling | cern-12773052019-09-30T06:29:59Z http://cds.cern.ch/record/1277305 eng Choi, Ki-Young Restrepo, Diego Yaguna, Carlos E Zapata, Oscar Indirect detection of gravitino dark matter including its three-body decays Particle Physics - Phenomenology It was recently pointed out that in supersymmetric scenarios with gravitino dark matter and bilinear R-parity violation, gravitinos with masses below Mw typically decay with a sizable branching ratio into the 3-body final states W^*+lepton and Z^*+neutrino. In this paper we study the indirect detection signatures of gravitino dark matter including such final states. First, we obtain the gamma ray spectrum from gravitino decays, which features a monochromatic contribution from the decay into photon+neutrino and a continuum contribution from the three-body decays. After studying its dependence on supersymmetric parameters, we compute the expected gamma ray fluxes and derive new constraints, from recent FERMI data, on the R-parity breaking parameter and on the gravitino lifetime. Indirect detection via antimatter searches, a new possibility brought about by the three-body final states, is also analyzed. For models compatible with the gamma ray observations, the positron signal is found to be negligible whereas the antiproton one can be significant. info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/EC/FP7/237920 info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess Education Level info:eu-repo/semantics/article http://cds.cern.ch/record/1277305 2010-07-13 |
spellingShingle | Particle Physics - Phenomenology Choi, Ki-Young Restrepo, Diego Yaguna, Carlos E Zapata, Oscar Indirect detection of gravitino dark matter including its three-body decays |
title | Indirect detection of gravitino dark matter including its three-body decays |
title_full | Indirect detection of gravitino dark matter including its three-body decays |
title_fullStr | Indirect detection of gravitino dark matter including its three-body decays |
title_full_unstemmed | Indirect detection of gravitino dark matter including its three-body decays |
title_short | Indirect detection of gravitino dark matter including its three-body decays |
title_sort | indirect detection of gravitino dark matter including its three-body decays |
topic | Particle Physics - Phenomenology |
url | http://cds.cern.ch/record/1277305 http://cds.cern.ch/record/1277305 |
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