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The Suppression of Neutralino Annihilation into Zh

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2009-01-07 v5

Abstract

The Indirect Detection of neutralino Dark Matter is most promising through annihilation channels producing a hard energy spectrum for the detected particles, such as the neutralino annihilation into ZhZh. A cancellation however makes this particular annihilation channel generically subdominant in the huge parameter space of supersymmetric models. This cancellation requires non-trivial relations between neutralino mixings and masses, which we derive from gauge independence and unitarity of the MSSM. To show how the cancellation overshoots leaving only a subdominant result, we use a perturbative expansion in powers of the electroweak/supersymmetry breaking ratio mZ/mχm_{Z}/m_{\chi}.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0602111,
  title  = {The Suppression of Neutralino Annihilation into Zh},
  author = {Benjamin Labonne and Emmanuel Nezri and Jean Orloff},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0602111},
  year   = {2009}
}

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