Abstract
It was recently pointed out that in supersymmetric scenarios with gravitino dark matter and bilinear R-parity violation, gravitinos with masses below Mw typically decay with a sizable branching ratio into the 3-body final states W*l and Z*v. In this paper we study the indirect detection signatures of gravitino dark matter including such final states. First, we obtain the gamma ray spectrum from gravitino decays, which features a monochromatic contribution from the decay into γv and a continuum contribution from the threebody decays. After studying its dependence on supersymmetric parameters, we compute the expected gamma ray fluxes and derive new constraints, from recent FERMI data, on the R-parity breaking parameter and on the gravitino lifetime. Indirect detection via antimatter searches, a new possibility brought about by the three-body final states, is also analyzed. For models compatible with the gamma ray observations, the positron signal is found to be negligible whereas the antiproton one can be significant.
| Original language | English |
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| Article number | 033 |
| Journal | Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics |
| Volume | 2010 |
| Issue number | 10 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - 26 Oct 2010 |
| Externally published | Yes |
Keywords
- Cosmic ray theory
- Dark matter theory
- Gamma ray theory