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Signals of dark matter in a supersymmetric two dark matter model

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2011-07-07 v2 High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena

Abstract

Supersymmetric radiative neutrino mass models have often two dark matter candidates. One is the usual lightest neutralino with odd R parity and the other is a new neutral particle whose stability is guaranteed by a discrete symmetry that forbids tree-level neutrino Yukawa couplings. If their relic abundance is comparable, dark matter phenomenology can be largely different from the minimal supersymmetric standard model (MSSM). We study this in a supersymmetric radiative neutrino mass model with the conserved R parity and a Z2Z_2 symmetry weakly broken by the anomaly effect. The second dark matter with odd parity of this new Z2Z_2 is metastable and decays to the neutralino dark matter. Charged particles and photons associated to this decay can cause the deviation from the expected background of the cosmic rays. Direct search of the neutralino dark matter is also expected to show different features from the MSSM since the relic abundance is not composed of the neutralino dark matter only. We discuss the nature of dark matter in this model by analyzing these signals quantitatively.

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@article{arxiv.1012.4007,
  title  = {Signals of dark matter in a supersymmetric two dark matter model},
  author = {Hiroki Fukuoka and Daijiro Suematsu and Takashi Toma},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1012.4007},
  year   = {2011}
}

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25 pages, 9 figures, 2 tables, accepted version for publication in JCAP