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The KARMEN anomaly, light neutralinos and type II supernovae

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2009-10-31 v2

Abstract

The KARMEN experiment observes a time anomaly in events induced by pion decay at rest. This anomaly can be ascribed to the production of a new weakly interacting particle X with mass m_X\sim 34 MeV. We show that a recently proposed identification of the X particle with the lightest neutralino \chi in the frame work of the MSSM with broken R parity is in contradiction to optical observations of type II supernovae.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0001160,
  title  = {The KARMEN anomaly, light neutralinos and type II supernovae},
  author = {M. Kachelriess},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0001160},
  year   = {2009}
}

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6 pages latex, 1 eps figure. Slightly revised (cf. title), matches published version