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Dark matter in the Kim-Nilles mechanism

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2011-09-08 v2 Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics

Abstract

The Kim-Nilles mechanism relates the μ\mu term with the axion scale faf_a, leading to the axino-Higgsino-Higgs Yukawa coupling of order μ/fa\mu/f_a. This can bring a dangerous thermal production of axinos. If the axino is stable, its mass has to be as small as O{\cal O}(0.1keV), or the reheat temperature should be lower than O{\cal O}(10GeV) taking the lower axion scale 101010^{10} GeV in order not to overclose the Universe. If the axino decays to a neutralino, the overproduced neutralinos can re-annihilate appropriately to saturate the observed dark matter density if the annihilation rate is of order 108GeV210^{-8}{GeV}^{-2} for the axion scale larger than about 101110^{11} GeV. Thus, a light Higgsino-like lightest supersymmetric particle with a sizable bino mixture becomes a good dark matter candidate whose nucleonic cross-section is of order 104510^{-45}cm2^2.

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@article{arxiv.1104.2219,
  title  = {Dark matter in the Kim-Nilles mechanism},
  author = {Eung Jin Chun},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1104.2219},
  year   = {2011}
}

Comments

10 pages, 1 figure; Corrected errors in Eq.(7) and in the direct detection cross-section of the Higgsino-like dark matter; Revised Fig.1; Added a discussion on the saxion; Added references; to appear in PRD