Recent Developments in Supersymmetric and Hidden Sector Dark Matter
Abstract
New results which correlate SUSY dark matter with LHC signals are presented, and a brief review of recent developments in supersymmetric and hidden sector dark matter is given. It is shown that the direct detection of dark matter is very sensitive to the hierarchical SUSY sparticle spectrum and the spectrum is very useful in distinguishing models. It is shown that the prospects of the discovery of neutralino dark matter are very bright on the "Chargino Wall" due to a copious number of model points on the Wall, where the NLSP is the Chargino, and the spin independent neutralino-proton cross section is maintained at high values in the cm range for neutralino masses up to GeV . It is also shown that the direct detection of dark matter along with lepton plus jet signatures and missing energy provide dual, and often complementary, probes of supersymmetry. Finally, we discuss an out of the box possibility for dark matter, which includes dark matter from the hidden sector, which could either consist of extra weakly interacting dark matter (a Stino XWIMP), or milli-charged dark matter arising from the Stueckelberg extensions of the MSSM or the SM.
Cite
@article{arxiv.0806.4683,
title = {Recent Developments in Supersymmetric and Hidden Sector Dark Matter},
author = {Daniel Feldman and Zuowei Liu and Pran Nath},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0806.4683},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
6 pages, 2 figs. Based on invited plenary talk at the 16th International Conference on "Supersymmetry and Unification of Fundamental Interactions", at Seoul, Korea, June 16-21, 2008