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Constraining the mSUGRA parameter space using the entropy of dark matter halos

Astrophysics 2009-06-23 v1 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

Abstract

We derive an expression for the entropy of a dark matter halo described by a Navarro-Frenk-White model with a core. The comparison of this entropy with the one of dark matter at the freeze-out era allows us to constraint the parameter space in mSUGRA models. Moreover, joining these constraints with the ones obtained from the usual abundance criteria and demanding both criteria to be consistent with the 2σ\sigma bounds for the abundance of dark matter: 0.112ΩDMh20.1220.112\leq\Omega_{DM}h^2\leq0.122, we are able to clearly discriminate validity regions among the values of tanβ\tan \beta, one of the parameters of the mSUGRA model. We found that for the explored regions of the parameter space, small values of tanβ\beta are not favored; only for tanβ50\beta\simeq50 are both criteria significantly consistent. In the region where both criteria are consistent we also found a lower bound for the neutralino mass, mχ141m_{\chi}\geq 141 GeV.

Cite

@article{arxiv.0804.3235,
  title  = {Constraining the mSUGRA parameter space using the entropy of dark matter halos},
  author = {Dario Nunez and Jesus Zavala and Lukas Nellen and Roberto A. Sussman and Luis G. Cabral-Rosetti and Myriam Mondragon},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0804.3235},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

25 pages, 6 figures. Accepted for publication in JCAP

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