Sneutrino dark matter: Symmetry protection and cosmic ray anomalies

Durmuş A. Demir, Lisa L. Everett, Mariana Frank, Levent Selbuz, and Ismail Turan
Phys. Rev. D 81, 035019 – Published 26 February 2010

Abstract

We present an R-parity conserving model of sneutrino dark matter within a Higgsphilic U(1) extension of the minimal supersymmetric standard model. In this theory, the μ parameter and light Dirac neutrino masses are generated naturally upon the breaking of the U(1) gauge symmetry. One of the right-handed sneutrinos is the lightest supersymmetric particle. The leptonic and hadronic decays of another sneutrino, taken to be the next-to-lightest superpartner, allow for a natural fit to the recent results reported by the PAMELA experiment. We perform a detailed calculation of the dark matter relic density in this scenario, and show that the model is consistent with the ATIC and Fermi LAT experiments.

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  • Received 23 June 2009

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.81.035019

©2010 American Physical Society

Authors & Affiliations

Durmuş A. Demir1, Lisa L. Everett2, Mariana Frank3, Levent Selbuz1,4, and Ismail Turan3,5

  • 1Department of Physics, Izmir Institute of Technology, IZTECH, TR35430 Izmir, Turkey,
  • 2Department of Physics, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI 53706, USA,
  • 3Department of Physics, Concordia University, 7141 Sherbrooke St. West, Montreal, Quebec, Canada H4B 1R6,
  • 4Department of Engineering Physics, Ankara University, TR06100 Ankara, Turkey,
  • 5Ottawa-Carleton Institute of Physics, Carleton University, 1125 Colonel By Drive, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, K1S 5B6.

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Vol. 81, Iss. 3 — 1 February 2010

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