Gravitational violation of R-parity and its cosmological signatures

Aug, 1996
10 pages
Published in:
  • Phys.Rev.D 57 (1998) 147-151
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Report number:
  • INFN-TH-97-05

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Abstract:
The discrete R-parity (RPR_P) usually imposed on the Supersymmetric (SUSY) models is expected to be broken at least gravitationally. If the neutralino is a dark matter particle its decay channels into positrons, antiprotons and neutrinos are severely constrained from astrophysical observations. These constraints are shown to be violated even for Planck-mass-suppressed dimension-five interactions arising from gravitational effects. We perform a general analysis of gravitationally induced RPR_P violation and identify two plausible and astrophysically consistent scenarios for achieving the required suppression.
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  • R parity: violation
  • gravitation: effect
  • supersymmetry
  • dark matter
  • sparticle: neutral particle
  • sparticle: decay modes