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Entropy considerations in constraining the mSUGRA parameter space

Astrophysics 2009-11-11 v1 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

Abstract

We explore the use of two criteria to constraint the allowed parameter space in mSUGRA models. Both criteria are based in the calculation of the present density of neutralinos as dark matter in the Universe. The first one is the usual ``abundance'' criterion which is used to calculate the relic density after the ``freeze-out'' era. To compute the relic density we used the numerical public code micrOMEGAs. The second criterion applies the microcanonical definition of entropy to a weakly interacting and self-gravitating gas evaluating then the change in the entropy per particle of this gas between the ``freeze-out'' era and present day virialized structures. An ``entropy-consistency'' criterion emerges by comparing theoretical and empirical estimates of this entropy. The main objective of our work is to determine for which regions of the parameter space in the mSUGRA model are both criteria consistent with the 2σ\sigma bounds according to WMAP for the relic density: 0.0945<ΩCDMh2<0.12870.0945<\Omega_{CDM}h^2<0.1287. As a first result, we found that for A0=0A_0=0, sgnμ=+\mu=+, small values of tanβ\beta are not favored; only for tanβ50\beta\simeq50 are both criteria significantly consistent.

Cite

@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0604127,
  title  = {Entropy considerations in constraining the mSUGRA parameter space},
  author = {Dario Nunez and Roberto A. Sussman and Jesus Zavala and Lukas Nellen and Luis G. Cabral-Rosetti and Myriam Mondragón},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0604127},
  year   = {2009}
}

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5 pages, 1 figure. To appear in the Proceedings of X Mexican Workshop on Particles and Fields, Morelia Michoac\'an, M\'exico, November 7-12, 2005