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Phys. Rev. D 77, 015008 (2008) [11 pages]

Supersymmetric U(1) model with multiple dark matters

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Taeil Hur1, Hye-Sung Lee2, and Salah Nasri2,3
1Department of Physics, KAIST, Daejon 305-701, Korea
2Institute for Fundamental Theory, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida 32611, USA
3Department of Physics, United Arab Emirates University, Al Ain, United Arab Emirates

Received 18 October 2007; published 15 January 2008

We consider a scenario where a supersymmetric model has multiple dark matter particles. Adding a U(1) gauge symmetry is a well-motivated extension of the minimal supersymmetric standard model (MSSM). It can cure the problems of the MSSM such as the μ problem or the proton decay problem with high-dimensional lepton number and baryon number violating operators which R parity allows. An extra parity (U parity) may arise as a residual discrete symmetry after U(1) gauge symmetry is spontaneously broken. The lightest U-parity particle (LUP) is stable under the new parity becoming a new dark matter candidate. Up to three massive particles can be stable in the presence of the R parity and the U parity. We numerically illustrate that multiple stable particles in our model can satisfy both constraints from the relic density and the direct detection, thus providing a specific scenario where a supersymmetric model has well-motivated multiple dark matters consistent with experimental constraints. The scenario provides new possibilities in the present and upcoming dark matter searches in the direct detection and collider experiments.

© 2008 The American Physical Society

URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevD.77.015008
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevD.77.015008
PACS:
12.60.Jv, 14.70.Pw, 95.35.+d