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Right-handed sneutrino as thermal dark matter

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2009-01-21 v2 Astrophysics

Abstract

We study an extension of the MSSM with a singlet S with coupling SH1H2 in order to solve the mu problem as in the NMSSM, and right-handed neutrinos N with couplings SNN in order to generate dynamically electroweak-scale Majorana masses. We show how in this model a purely right-handed sneutrino can be a viable candidate for cold dark matter in the Universe. Through the direct coupling to the singlet, the sneutrino can not only be thermal relic dark matter but also have a large enough scattering cross section with nuclei to detect it directly in near future, in contrast with most of other right-handed sneutrino dark matter models.

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@article{arxiv.0807.3029,
  title  = {Right-handed sneutrino as thermal dark matter},
  author = {D. G. Cerdeno and C. Munoz and O. Seto},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0807.3029},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

5 pages, 2 figures. References added and minor changes. Final version to appear in Phys. Rev. D

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