TY - JOUR
T1 - Goldstini as the decaying dark matter
AU - Cheng, Hsin Chia
AU - Huang, Wei Chih
AU - Low, Ian
AU - Menon, Arjun
PY - 2011/3
Y1 - 2011/3
N2 - We consider a new scenario for supersymmetric decaying dark matter without R-parity violation in theories with goldstini, which arise if supersymmetry is broken independently by multiple sequestered sectors. The uneaten goldstino naturally has a long lifetime and decays into three-body final states including the gravitino, which escapes detection, and two visible particles. The goldstini low-energy effective interactions are derived, which can be non-universal and allow the dark matter to be leptophilic, in contrast to the case of a single sector supersymmetry breaking. In addition, the three-body decay with a missing particle gives a softer spectrum. Consequently, it is possible to fit both the e+/e- excess observed by the PAMELA and the e+ +e- measurements by the Fermi-LAT using universal couplings to all three lepton flavors or 100% branching fraction into electrons/ positrons, both of which are disfavored in the conventional scenario of dark matter decays into two or four visible particles without missing energy.
AB - We consider a new scenario for supersymmetric decaying dark matter without R-parity violation in theories with goldstini, which arise if supersymmetry is broken independently by multiple sequestered sectors. The uneaten goldstino naturally has a long lifetime and decays into three-body final states including the gravitino, which escapes detection, and two visible particles. The goldstini low-energy effective interactions are derived, which can be non-universal and allow the dark matter to be leptophilic, in contrast to the case of a single sector supersymmetry breaking. In addition, the three-body decay with a missing particle gives a softer spectrum. Consequently, it is possible to fit both the e+/e- excess observed by the PAMELA and the e+ +e- measurements by the Fermi-LAT using universal couplings to all three lepton flavors or 100% branching fraction into electrons/ positrons, both of which are disfavored in the conventional scenario of dark matter decays into two or four visible particles without missing energy.
KW - Supersymmetry phenomenology
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U2 - 10.1007/JHEP03(2011)019
DO - 10.1007/JHEP03(2011)019
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:80053126881
SN - 1126-6708
VL - 2011
JO - Journal of High Energy Physics
JF - Journal of High Energy Physics
IS - 3
M1 - 19
ER -