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Probing Non-Thermal Gravitinos Through Large-Scale Structure Observations

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2025-03-13 v3 Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

Abstract

We investigate the effects of non-thermally produced dark matter on large-scale structure formation, focusing on the gravitino dark matter. Our analysis shows that large-scale structure measurements from the SDSS LRG data offer a promising approach to probing non-thermally produced gravitinos. Specifically, if gravitinos resulting from neutralino decay constitute a fraction Fdec=0.35 (0.1)F_\text{dec}=0.35~(0.1) of the dark matter component, the data exclude bino-like neutralino with a mass mχ1025 (11) GeVm_{\chi_1^0}\lesssim 25~(11)\text{ GeV} at 95% C.L.95\%\text{ C.L.}. Furthermore, this constraint appears to be largely independent of the gravitino mass.

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@article{arxiv.2408.10585,
  title  = {Probing Non-Thermal Gravitinos Through Large-Scale Structure Observations},
  author = {Weiyi Deng and Liyuan Guo and Chengcheng Han and Zhanhong Lei},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2408.10585},
  year   = {2025}
}

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7 pages, 3 figures, PRD version

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