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Gravitino Decay in High Scale Supersymmetry with R-parity Violation

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2018-08-01 v1 High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena

Abstract

We consider the effects of R-parity violation due to the inclusion of a bilinear μLHu\mu^\prime L H_u superpotential term in high scale supersymmetric models with an EeV scale gravitino as dark matter. Although the typical phenomenological limits on this coupling (e.g. due to lepton number violation and the preservation of the baryon asymmetry) are relaxed when the supersymmetric mass spectrum is assumed to be heavy (in excess of the inflationary scale of 3×10133 \times 10^{13} GeV), the requirement that the gravitino be sufficiently long-lived so as to account for the observed dark matter density, leads to a relatively strong bound on μ20\mu^\prime \lesssim 20 GeV. The dominant decay channels for the longitudinal component of the gravitino are Zν,W±lZ \nu, W^\pm l^\mp, and hνh\nu. To avoid an excess neutrino signal in IceCube, our limit on μ\mu' is then strengthened to μ50\mu' \lesssim 50 keV. When the bound is saturated, we find that there is a potentially detectable flux of mono-chromatic neutrinos with EeV energies.

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@article{arxiv.1805.07342,
  title  = {Gravitino Decay in High Scale Supersymmetry with R-parity Violation},
  author = {Emilian Dudas and Tony Gherghetta and Kunio Kaneta and Yann Mambrini and Keith A. Olive},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1805.07342},
  year   = {2018}
}

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27 pages, 4 figures