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Natural Dark Matter

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2008-11-26 v2

Abstract

In this talk we analyse the claim that supersymmetry (SUSY) naturally accounts for the observed dark matter density. In many cases, it is necessary to tune the parameters of a SUSY model to fit the WMAP data. We provide a quantitative analysis of the degree of tuning required for different annihilation channels. Some regions are natural, requiring no tuning at all, whereas others require tuning at the 0.1% level.

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Cite

@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0609147,
  title  = {Natural Dark Matter},
  author = {S. F. King and J. P. Roberts},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0609147},
  year   = {2008}
}

Comments

Reference added. Based on talk given at Physics at the LHC 2006, Cracow, Poland, 3-8 Jul 2006