2001/05/17 by D. G. Cerdeno, Cerdeno, D. G., S. Khalil +3 · 3 citations
Physics and Astronomy · #Atomic and Subatomic Physics Research #Dark Matter and Cosmic Phenomena #FOS: Physical sciences #High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph) #Scientific Research and Discoveries #hep-ph
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.hep-ph/0105180
Extension of a talk given at Cairo International Conference on High Energy Physics (CICHEP 2001), January 9-14, 22 pages, 10 figures. Conventions clarified, figures improved, references added
openalex publication_date 2001/05/17 · arxiv created 2001/08/09 · arxiv updated 2009/11/30 · openalex created_date 2016/06/24 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
We review the direct detection of supersymmetric dark matter in the light of recent experimental results. In particular, we show that regions in the parameter space of several supergravity scenarios with a neutralino-nucleon cross section of order of 10-6 pb, i.e., where current dark matter detectors are sensitive, can be obtained. These are scenarios with large tan β, with non-universal soft supersymmetry-breaking terms, with multi-TeV masses for scalar superpartners known as `focus point' supersymmetry, and finally scenarios with intermediate unification scale which appear naturally in some superstring constructions.