Impact of squark flavor violation on neutralino dark matter
Impact of squark flavor violation on neutralino dark matter
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夸克味破坏对中子暗物质的影响
DOI:
10.1103/physrevd.84.095007
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发表时间:
2011
影响因子:
5
通讯作者:
Q. L. Boulc'h
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作者:
B. Herrmann;M. Klasen;Q. L. Boulc'h
We discuss the possibility of new sources of flavor violation in the squark sector of supersymmetric models in the context of the dark matter relic density. We show that the corresponding nonminimal flavor violation terms in the squark mass matrices can have an important impact on the thermally averaged (co)annihilation cross section of the neutralino, and in consequence can modify its predicted relic density. We discuss in detail the relevant effects and present a numerical study of neutralino annihilation and coannihilation in this context. We also comment on the LHC phenomenology of the corresponding scenarios.