New decay modes of gravitino dark matter
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2010-11-30 v1 High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
Abstract
We consider the three-body decays of gravitino dark matter in supersymmetric scenarios with bilinear R-parity violation. In particular, gravitino decays into lepton+W^* (lepton f\bar f') and \nu+Z^* (\nu f\bar f) are examined for gravitino masses below Mw. After computing the gravitino decay rates into these three-body final states and studying their dependence on supersymmetric parameters, we find that these new decay modes are often more important than the two-body decay, into a photon and a neutrino, considered in previous works. Consequently, the gravitino lifetime and its branching ratios are substantially modified, with important implications for the indirect detection of gravitino dark matter.
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@article{arxiv.1003.3401,
title = {New decay modes of gravitino dark matter},
author = {Ki-Young Choi and Carlos E. Yaguna},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1003.3401},
year = {2010}
}
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4 pages, 5 figures