25 July 2007 to 1 August 2007
Karlsruhe University
Europe/Zurich timezone

Gravitino dark matter with broken R-parity

30 Jul 2007, 14:20
20m
Lehmann-Auditorium (Karlsruhe University)

Lehmann-Auditorium

Karlsruhe University

Wolfgang-Gaede-Str. 1 76131 Karlsruhe Germany
Parallel Talk Cosmology and Astrophysics Cosmology 7

Speaker

Dr Alejandro Ibarra (DESY)

Description

We show that in the case of small R-parity and lepton number breaking couplings, primordial nucleosynthesis, thermal leptogenesis and gravitino dark matter are naturally consistent for gravitino masses m_{3/2} \gsim 5 GeV. The metastable next-to-lightest superparticle has a decay length that is typically larger than a few centimeters, with characteristic signatures at the LHC. The photon flux produced by relic gravitino decays may be part of the apparent excess in the extragalactic diffuse gamma-ray flux obtained from the EGRET data for a gravitino mass m_{3/2} \sim 10 GeV. In this case, a clear signal can be expected from GLAST in the near future.

Author

Dr Alejandro Ibarra (DESY)

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