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Search for sharp and smooth spectral signatures of μνSSM gravitino dark matter with Fermi- LAT

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IOP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.1088/1475-7516/2017/03/047

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dark matter experiments; dark matter theory; gamma ray experiments

Funding

  1. Programa FONDECYT Postdoctorado [3160153]
  2. Argentinian CONICET
  3. MINECO/FEDER UE [FPA2015-65929-P]
  4. Centro de Excelencia Severo Ochoa [SEV-2012-0249]
  5. Spanish MINECO
  6. Severo Ochoa MINECO [SEV-2014-0398]
  7. Spanish MINECO's Consolider-Ingenio Programme [MultiDark CSD2009-00064]
  8. [FPA2014-57816-P]
  9. [FPA2013-44773]

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The mu nu SSM solves the mu problem of supersymmetric models and reproduces neutrino data, simply using couplings with right-handed neutrinos nu's. Given that these couplings break explicitly R parity, the gravitino is a natural candidate for decaying dark matter in the mu nu SSM. In this work we carry out a complete analysis of the detection of mu nu SSM gravitino dark matter through gamma-ray observations. In addition to the two-body decay producing a sharp line, we include in the analysis the three-body decays producing a smooth spectral signature. We perform first a deep exploration of the low-energy parameter space of the mu nu SSM taking into account that neutrino data must be reproduced. Then, we compare the gamma-ray fluxes predicted by the model with Fermi-LAT observations. In particular, with the 95% CL upper limits on the total diffuse extragalactic gamma-ray background using 50 months of data, together with the upper limits on line emission from an updated analysis using 69.9 months of data. For standard values of bino and wino masses, gravitinos with masses larger than about 4 GeV, or lifetimes smaller than about 10(28) s, produce too large fluxes and are excluded as dark matter candidates. However, when limiting scenarios with large and close values of the gaugino masses are considered, the constraints turn out to be less stringent, excluding masses larger than 17 GeV and lifetimes smaller than 4 x 10(25) s.

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