Model independent limits on an ultra-light gravitino from Supernovae
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2015-07-20 v3 Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract
We revisit astrophysical constraints on models with an ultra-light gravitino, in particular extending the analysis to more general models and the case of R-parity breaking. These constraints allow to restrict the value of the gravitino mass depending on the masses of scalar moduli. We perform both a frequentist and bayesian analysis and we find comparable results, even if the bayesian analysis is in part affected by volume effects. Only a small window of gravitino masses can be excluded by the SN constraints in a model-independent way, while limits obtained with a definite assumption on the scalar masses result more stringent.
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@article{arxiv.1410.0314,
title = {Model independent limits on an ultra-light gravitino from Supernovae},
author = {Riccardo Catena and Laura Covi and Timon Emken},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1410.0314},
year = {2015}
}
Comments
18 pages, 5 figures, replaced to match the published version