2003/08/19 by Jonathan L. Feng, Feng, Jonathan L.
Physics and Astronomy · #Astrophysics (astro-ph) #FOS: Physical sciences #High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex) #High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph) #astro-ph #hep-ex #hep-ph
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.hep-ph/0308201
12 pages, 3 figures, invited talk presented at the International Conference on 20 Years of SUGRA and the Search for SUSY and Unification (SUGRA20), March 2003, Northeastern University, Boston, USA
arxiv created 2003/08/19 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01
In supergravity theories, a natural possibility is that neutralinos or sleptons freeze out at their thermal relic density, but then decay to gravitinos after about a year. The resulting gravitinos are then superWIMPs -- superweakly-interacting massive particles that naturally inherit the desired relic density from late decays of conventional WIMPs. SuperWIMP dark matter escapes all conventional searches. However, the late decays that produce superWIMPs provide new and promising early universe signatures for cold dark matter.