intro to neutralino dark matter
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intro to neutralino dark matter. Pearl Sandick University of Minnesota. Plan. Why study Supersymmetry? MSSM Neutralino Dark Matter Constrained MSSM. Why study SUSY?. Aesthetically “neat” extension. Stabilizes the Higgs vev (Hierarchy Problem). Gauge coupling unification. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
intro to intro to neutralino dark matterneutralino dark matter
Pearl SandickUniversity of Minnesota
• Why study Supersymmetry?
• MSSM Neutralino Dark Matter
• Constrained MSSM
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Aesthetically “neat” extension Stabilizes the Higgs vev (Hierarchy
Problem) Gauge coupling unification
Predicts a light Higgs boson
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Aesthetically “neat” extension
R. Haag, J. T. Lopuszanski and M. Sohnius Nucl. Phys. B 88 (1975) 257
Coleman-Mandula Theorem: “impossibility of combining space-time and internal symmetries in any but a trivial way” Phys. Rev. 159: 1251–1256
By including both commuting and anticommuting generators, get consistent theory with interplay of Poincaré and internal symmetries,
i.e. boson fermion.
Supersymmetry is the only nontrivial extension
of the Pioncaré algebra in a consistent 4-d QFT.
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Aesthetically “neat” extension Stabilizes the Higgs vev (Hierarchy
Problem)
Classical Higgs Potential: V = mH2 ||2 + ||4
SM requires <> 0, so
<> = (-mH2 / 2 )1/2 174 GeV
-mH2 (100 GeV)2
But mH2 gets quantum corrections from particles that interact with the Higgs
field!
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Aesthetically “neat” extension Stabilizes the Higgs vev (Hierarchy
Problem)
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SUSY maintains hierarchy of mass scales.
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Aesthetically “neat” extension Stabilizes the Higgs vev (Hierarchy
Problem) Gauge coupling unificationNear miss! Just right!
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Aesthetically “neat” extension Stabilizes the Higgs vev (Hierarchy
Problem) Gauge coupling unification
Predicts a light Higgs boson
MSSM: 105 GeV < mh < 135 GeV
LEP: 114.4 GeV < mh < 182 GeV~ ~
LEP Collaborations and Electroweak Working Group, arXiv:0712.0929
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MSSM:
Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model
Has the minimal particle content possiblein a SUSY theory.
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quarks and squarks
leptons and sleptons
W boson and winogluon and gluino
B boson and bino
Higgs bosons and higgsinos
Fermions and
sfermions
gauge bosonsand gauginos
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• Neutralinos are an excellent dark matter candidate!
• The lightest one may be a stable WIMP with h2 DMh2
Caveat: The lightest SUSY particle (LSP) is stable if R-parity is conserved.
R = (-1)3B+L+2S = +1 for SM particles-1 for sparticles
Why conserve R-parity?•Stability of proton
•Neutron-antineutron oscillations•Neutrino mass
Ad hoc?•SO(10) GUTs
•B and L numbers become accidental symmetries of SUSY
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• Neutralinos are an excellent dark matter candidate!
• The lightest one may be a stable WIMP with h2 DMh2
Properties of neutralino LSP will depend on its composition.
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Explicitly add [soft] SUSY-breaking terms to the theory:Masses for all gauginos and scalarsCouplings for scalar-scalar and scalar-scalar-scalar interactions
CMSSM (similar to mSUGRA)Assume universality of soft SUSY-breaking parameters at MGUT
Free Parameters: m0, m1/2, A0, tan(), sign()
Don’t observe boson-fermion degeneracy, so SUSY must be broken (How?)
Most general case (MSSM) has > 100 new parameters!OR make some assumptions about SUSY breaking at a
high scale, and evolve mass parameters down to low scale for observables
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1. Assume neutralinos were once in thermal equilibrium
2. Solve the Boltzmann rate equation to find abundance now
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Situations when care must be taken to properly calculate (approximate) the relic density:
1. s - channel poles• 2 m mA
2. Coannihilations• m mother sparticle
3. Thresholds• 2 m final state mass
Griest and Seckel (1991)
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mh > 114 GeVm± > 104 GeVBR(b s ) HFAGBR(Bs +--) CDF(g -- 2)/2 g-2 collab.
LEP
0.09 h2 0.12
Apply constraints from colliders and cosmology:
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2 < 0(no EWSB)
stau LSP
LEP Higgs mass
Relaxed LEP HiggsLEP chargino mass
g--2 suggested region
FocusPoint
Coannihilation Strip
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bs
B+--
Rapid annihilation funnel 2m mA
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1. Direct detection Solid state: CDMS, SuperCDMS,
EDELWEISS…
Liquid nobles: XENON10, XENON100/LUX, ArDM, DEEP, CLEAN, WARP, ZEPLIN…
2. Indirect detection Detect neutralino annihilation/decay products
terrestrially (ICEcube, ANITA) or in space (PAMELA, GLAST)
3. Colliders
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Effective 4-fermion lagrangian for neutralino-nucleon scattering (velocity-independent pieces):
If neutralinos are DM, they are present locally, so will occasionally bump into a nucleus.
spin dependentspin independent
(scalar)• Fraction of nucleus participates
• Important for capture & annihilation rates in the sun
• Whole nucleus participates• Best prospects for direct detection
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tan = 10, Min = MGUT
CDMS II (2006)
XENON 10
XENON 100SuperCDMS
•Pass all constraints (blue)
•Only fail relaxed Higgs mass constraint (green)
WMAPDM
WMAPDM
0
then If
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tan = 10, Min = MGUT
CDMS II (2006)
XENON 10
XENON 100SuperCDMS
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tan = 50, Min = MGUT
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