Published February 10, 2010 | Version v1
Journal article

Gravitino Dark Matter

  • 1. Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY, 22607 Hamburg (Germany)

Description

Gravitino dark matter, together with thermal leptogenesis, implies an upper bound on the masses of superparticles. In the case of broken R-parity the constraints from primordial nucleosynthesis are naturally satisfied and decaying gravitinos lead to characteristic signatures in high energy cosmic rays. Electron and positron fluxes from gravitino decays cannot explain both, the PAMELA positron fraction and the electron+positron flux recently measured by Fermi LAT. The observed fluxes require astrophysical sources. The measured antiproton flux allows for a sizable contribution of decaying gravitinos to the gamma-ray spectrum, in particular a line at an energy below 300 GeV.

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Publishing Information

Journal Title
AIP Conference Proceedings
Journal Volume
1200
Journal Issue
1
Journal Page Range
p. 155-164
ISSN
0094-243X
CODEN
APCPCS

Conference

Title
7. international conference on supersymmetry and the unification of fundamental interactions
Acronym
SUSY09
Dates
5-10 Jun 2008
Place
Boston, MA (United States)

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(c) 2010 American Institute of Physics