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Gravitino Miracle

by Josh Ruderman (Berkeley)

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4/2-011 - TH common room (CERN)

4/2-011 - TH common room

CERN

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Description
If some superpartners were in thermal equilibrium in the early universe, and if the lightest superpartner is a cosmologically stable gravitino, then there is a powerful upper bound on the scale of the superpartner masses. Typically the bound is below tens of TeV, often much lower, and has similar parametrics to the WIMP miracle.