Published September 2009 | Version v1
Journal article

Non-thermal gravitino dark matter in gauge mediation

  • 1. Department of Physics, University of Tokyo, Tokyo 113-0033 (Japan)
  • 2. Department of Physics, Tohoku University, Sendai 980-8578 (Japan)
  • 3. Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe, University of Tokyo, Chiba 277-8568 (Japan)

Description

We show that gravitinos produced by decays of a supersymmetry breaking scalar field (the pseudo-moduli field) can naturally explain the observed abundance of dark matter in a certain class of the gauge mediation models. We study the decay processes as well as cosmological constraints on this scenario in detail, particularly focusing on different behavior of the real and imaginary components of the pseudo-moduli field. Cosmologically viable scenario emerges when the gravitino and the pseudo-moduli masses are O(10-100) MeV and O(100) GeV, respectively.

Availability note (English)

Available from http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1126-6708/2009/09/127

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Publishing Information

Journal Title
Journal of High Energy Physics
Journal Volume
9
Journal Issue
2009
Journal Page Range
p. 127
ISSN
1126-6708