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Goldstini as the decaying dark matter

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2015-03-17 v3 High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

We consider a new scenario for supersymmetric decaying dark matter without R-parity violation in theories with goldstini, which arise if supersymmetry is broken independently by multiple sequestered sectors. The uneaten goldstino naturally has a long lifetime and decays into three-body final states including the gravitino, which escapes detection, and two visible particles. The goldstini low-energy effective interactions are derived, which can be non-universal and allow the dark matter to be leptophilic, in contrast to the case of a single sector supersymmetry breaking. In addition, the three-body decay with a missing particle gives a softer spectrum. Consequently, it is possible to fit both the positron excess observed by the PAMELA and the total e+ + e- measurements by the Fermi-LAT using universal couplings to all three lepton flavors or 100% branching fraction into electrons/positrons, both of which are disfavored in the conventional scenario of dark matter decays into two or four visible particles without missing energy.

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@article{arxiv.1012.5300,
  title  = {Goldstini as the decaying dark matter},
  author = {Hsin-Chia Cheng and Wei-Chih Huang and Ian Low and Arjun Menon},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1012.5300},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

23 pages, 4 figures; v3: plots replaced

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