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Direct detection of dark matter in supersymmetric models

Howard Baer, Csaba Balázs, Alexander Belyaev1 and Jorge O'Farrill

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We evaluate neutralino–nucleon scattering rates in several well-motivated supersymmetric models, and compare against constraints on the neutralino relic density, BF(bsγ) as well as the muon anomalous magnetic moment aμ. In the mSUGRA model, the indirect constraints favour the hyperbolic branch/focus point (HB/FP) region of parameter space, and in fact this region is just where neutralino–nucleon scattering rates are high enough to be detected in direct dark matter search experiments! In Yukawa unified SUSY SO(10) models with scalar mass non-universality, the relic density of neutralinos is almost always above experimental bounds, while the corresponding direct detection rates are below experimental levels. Conversely, in five-dimensional SO(10) models where gauge symmetry breaking is the result of compactification of the extra dimension, and supersymmetry breaking is communicated via gaugino mediation, the relic density is quite low, while direct detection rates can be substantial.


Keywords

dark matter

dark matter detectors

PACS

95.35.+d Dark matter (stellar, interstellar, galactic, and cosmological)

13.40.Em Electric and magnetic moments

11.30.Pb Supersymmetry

98.80.Cq Particle-theory and field-theory models of the early Universe (including cosmic pancakes, cosmic strings, chaotic phenomena, inflationary universe, etc.)

04.65.+e Supergravity

11.30.Ly Other internal and higher symmetries

Subjects

Gravitation and cosmology

Particle physics and field theory

Astrophysics and astroparticles

Dates

Issue 09 (September 2003)

Received 13 June 0002, accepted for publication 31 July 2003, in final form 17 July 2003

Published 24 September 2003



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