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Minimal dark matter in type III seesaw

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2010-09-07 v3 Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics

Abstract

We explore the possibility of a new dark matter candidate in the supersymmetric type III seesaw mechanism where a neutral scalar component of the Y=0 triplet can be the lightest supersymmetric particle. Its thermal abundance can be in the right range if non-standard cosmology such as kination domination is assumed. The enhanced cross-section of the dark matter annihilation to W+W- can leave detectable astrophysical and cosmological signals whose current observational data puts a lower bound on the dark matter mass. The model predicts the existence of a charged scalar almost degenerate with the dark matter scalar and its lifetime lies between 5.5 cm and 6.3 m. It provides a novel opportunity of the dark mater mass measurement by identifying slowly-moving and highly-ionizing tracks in the LHC experiments. If the ordinary lightest supersymmetric particle is the usual Bino, its decay leads to clean signatures of same-sign di-lepton and di-charged-scalar associated with observable displaced vertices which are essentially background-free and can be fully reconstructed.

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@article{arxiv.0909.3408,
  title  = {Minimal dark matter in type III seesaw},
  author = {Eung Jin Chun},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0909.3408},
  year   = {2010}
}

Comments

3 figures, 12 pages; An error in the antiproton limit corrected; the lower bound on the dark matter mass strengthened; references added; typos corrected

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