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Limits on Sparticle Dark Matter

Astrophysics 2009-10-31 v1

Abstract

Arguments are given that the lightest supersymmetric particle should be a neutralino χ\chi. Minimizing the fine tuning of the gauge hierarchy favours Ωχh20.1\Omega_{\chi} h^2 \sim 0.1. There are important constraints on the parameter space of the MSSM from the stability of the electroweak vacuum. Co-annihilation with the next-to-lightest supersymmetric particle is potentially significant. Incorporating the latest accelerator constraints from LEP and elsewhere, we find that 50 GeV \lappeqmχ\lappeq\lappeq m_\chi \lappeq 600 GeV and tanβ\gappeq\tan\beta \gappeq 2.5, if soft supersymmetry breaking parameters are assumed to be universal.

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@article{arxiv.astro-ph/9903003,
  title  = {Limits on Sparticle Dark Matter},
  author = {John Ellis},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/9903003},
  year   = {2009}
}

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13 pages LaTeX, uses aipproc.sty (included), 9 eps figures, talk presented at COSMO 98, Asilomar, California, November 1998