Flaxino dark matter and stau decay
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2008-11-26 v2 Astrophysics
Abstract
If the spontaneous breaking of Peccei-Quinn symmetry comes from soft supersymmetry breaking, the fermionic partners of the symmetry-breaking fields have mass of order the gravitino mass, and are called flatinos. The lightest flatino, called here the flaxino, is a CDM candidate if it is the lightest supersymmetric particle. We here explore flaxino dark matter assuming that the lightest ordinary supersymmetric particle is the stau, with gravity-mediated supersymmetry breaking. The decay of the stau to the flaxino is fast enough not to spoil the standard predictions of Big Bang Nucleosynthesis, and its track and decay can be seen in future colliders.
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@article{arxiv.0801.4108,
title = {Flaxino dark matter and stau decay},
author = {Eung Jin Chun and Hang Bae Kim and Kazunori Kohri and David H. Lyth},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0801.4108},
year = {2008}
}
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9 pages, 4 figures, to appear in JHEP