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Neutralino Dark Matter in Focus Point Supersymmetry

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2009-09-25 v2 Astrophysics High Energy Physics - Experiment

Abstract

In recent work, it has been argued that multi-TeV masses for scalar superpartners are not unnatural. Indeed, they appear to have significant phenomenological virtues. Here we explore the implications of such `focus point' supersymmetry for the dark matter problem. We find that constraints on relic densities do not place upper bounds on neutralino or scalar masses. We demonstrate that, in the specific context of minimal supergravity, a cosmologically stable mixed gaugino-Higgsino state emerges as an excellent, robust dark matter candidate. We estimate that, over a wide range of the unknown parameters, the spin-independent proton-neutralino cross sections fall in the range accessible to planned search experiments.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0004043,
  title  = {Neutralino Dark Matter in Focus Point Supersymmetry},
  author = {Jonathan L. Feng and Konstantin T. Matchev and Frank Wilczek},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0004043},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

15 pages, 6 figures, version to appear in Phys. Lett. B. References added, minor modifications of Figs. 2 and 4 due to a bug (sign error) in neutdriver