Dark matter in the Kim-Nilles mechanism
Abstract
The Kim-Nilles mechanism relates the term with the axion scale , leading to the axino-Higgsino-Higgs Yukawa coupling of order . This can bring a dangerous thermal production of axinos. If the axino is stable, its mass has to be as small as (0.1keV), or the reheat temperature should be lower than (10GeV) taking the lower axion scale 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 for the axion scale larger than about 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 cm.
Cite
@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