Neutralino with the right cold dark matter abundance in (almost) any supersymmetric model

Feb, 2006
4 pages
Published in:
  • Phys.Rev.D 74 (2006) 023510
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Report number:
  • UCLA-06-TEP-07

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Abstract:
We consider non-standard cosmological models in which the late decay of a scalar field ϕ\phi reheats the Universe to a low reheating temperature, between 5 MeV and the standard freeze-out temperature of neutralinos of mass mχm_{\chi}. We point out that in these models all neutralinos with standard density Ωstd105(100GeV/mχ)\Omega_{\rm std} \gtrsim 10^{-5} (100 {\rm GeV}/m_\chi) can have the density of cold dark matter, provided the right combination of the following two parameters can be achieved in the high energy theory: the reheating temperature, and the ratio of the number of neutralinos produced per ϕ\phi decay over the ϕ\phi field mass. We present the ranges of these parameters where a combination of thermal and non-thermal neutralino production leads to the desired density, as functions of Ωstd\Omega_{\rm std} and mχm_{\chi}.
  • 12.60.Jv
  • 14.80.Ly
  • 95.35.+d
  • 98.80.Cq
  • dark matter: density
  • neutralino: mass
  • field theory: scalar
  • scalar particle: decay
  • supersymmetry
  • temperature: reheating