Published March 15, 2003 | Version v1
Journal article

Light relic neutralinos

  • 1. Dipartimento di Fisica Teorica, Universita di Torino, Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Torino, via P. Giuria 1, I-10125 Torino (Italy)

Description

The relic abundance and the scalar cross section off the nucleon for light neutralinos (of mass below about 45 GeV) are evaluated in an effective MSSM model without GUT-inspired relations among the gaugino masses. It is shown that these neutralinos may provide a sizable contribution to the matter density in the Universe and produce measurable effects in WIMP direct detection experiments. These properties are elucidated in terms of simple analytical arguments

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Journal Title
Physical Review. D, Particles Fields
Journal Volume
67
Journal Issue
6
Journal Page Range
p. 063519-063519.6
ISSN
0556-2821
CODEN
PRVDAQ

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