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SUSY Dark Matter and Quintessence

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2009-11-10 v2 Astrophysics

Abstract

We investigate the enhancement of neutralino relic density in the context of a realistic cosmological scenario with Quintessence. The accurate relic density computation we perform allows us to be sensitive to both cases with shifts in the abundance at the percent level, and to enhancements as large as 10^6. We thoroughly analyze the dependence on the supersymmetric spectrum and on the mass and composition of the lightest neutralino. We point out that supersymmetric models yielding a wino or higgsino-like lightest neutralino become cosmologically appealing in the presence of Quintessence.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0309220,
  title  = {SUSY Dark Matter and Quintessence},
  author = {Stefano Profumo and Piero Ullio},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0309220},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

24 pages, 11 figures, JHEP style; v2: references and a few comments added, version accepted for publication in JCAP

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