Right-handed sneutrino and gravitino multicomponent dark matter in light of neutrino detectors

Jun 9, 2022
35 pages
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  • JCAP 04 (2023) 050
  • Published: Apr 20, 2023
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We investigate the possibility that right-handed (RH) sneutrinos and gravitinos can coexist and explain the dark matter (DM) problem. We compare extensions of the minimal supersymmetric standard model (MSSM) and the next-to-MSSM (NMSSM) adding RH neutrinos superfields, with special emphasis on the latter. If the gravitino is the lightest supersymmetric particle (LSP) and the RH sneutrino the next-to-LSP (NLSP), the heavier particle decays to the former plus left-handed (LH) neutrinos through the mixing between the scalar partners of the LH and RH neutrinos.However, the interaction is suppressed by the Planck mass, and if the LH-RH sneutrino mixing parameter is small, ≪ O(102^{-2}), a long-lived RH sneutrino NLSP is possible even surpassing the age of the Universe.As a byproduct, the NLSP to LSP decay produces monochromatic neutrinos in the ballpark of current and planned neutrino telescopes like Super-Kamiokande, IceCube and Antares that we use to set constraints and show prospects of detection.In the NMSSM+RHN, assuming a gluino mass parameter M3_{3} = 3 TeV we found the following lower limits for the gravitino mass m3/2_{3/2} ≳ 1-600 GeV and the reheating temperature TR_{R} ≳ 105^{5} - 3 × 107^{7} GeV, for mν̃R10-800 GeV. If we take M3_{3} = 10 TeV, then the limits on TR are relaxed by one order of magnitude.
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  • Discussions improved and expanded, version published in JCAP, 35 pages, 7 figures, 3 tables
  • dark matter theory
  • dark matter experiments
  • neutrino detectors
  • new physics
  • supersymmetry: dark matter
  • minimal supersymmetric standard model
  • sneutrino: right-handed
  • sneutrino: dark matter
  • sneutrino: NLSP
  • sneutrino: decay