Indirect detection of gravitino dark matter including its three-body decays

Ki Young Choi, Diego Restrepo, Carlos E. Yaguna, Oscar Zapata

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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 languageEnglish
Article number033
JournalJournal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics
Volume2010
Issue number10
DOIs
StatePublished - 26 Oct 2010
Externally publishedYes

Keywords

  • Cosmic ray theory
  • Dark matter theory
  • Gamma ray theory

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