20 research outputs found
Higgsino Dark Matter in a SUGRA Model with Nonuniversal Gaugino Masses
We study a specific SUGRA model with nonuniversal gaugino masses as an
alternative to the minimal SUGRA model in the context of supersymmetric dark
matter. The lightest supersymmetric particle in this model comes out to be a
Higgsino dominated instead of a bino dominated lightest neutralino. The thermal
relic density of this Higgsino dark matter is somewhat lower than the
cosmologically favoured range, which means it may be only a subdominant
component of the cold dark matter. Nonetheless, it predicts favourable rates of
indirect detection, which can be seen in square-km size neutrino telescopes.Comment: Version to appear in Phys. Rev. D. A few references added in the
bibliography and a comment added in Section 2. LaTex, 16 pages, 4 figure
Slepton and Neutralino/Chargino Coannihilations in MSSM
Within the low-energy effective Minimal Supersymmetric extension of Standard
Model (effMSSM) we calculated the neutralino relic density taking into account
slepton-neutralino and neutralino-chargino/neutralino coannihilation channels.
We performed comparative study of these channels and obtained that both of them
give sizable contributions to the reduction of the relic density. Due to these
coannihilation processes some models (mostly with large neutralino masses)
enter into the cosmologically interesting region for relic density, but other
models leave this region. Nevertheless, in general, the predictions for direct
and indirect dark matter detection rates are not strongly affected by these
coannihilation channels in the effMSSM.Comment: 12 pages, 9 figures, revte
Squark-, Slepton- and Neutralino-Chargino coannihilation effects in the low-energy effective MSSM
Within the low-energy effective Minimal Supersymmetric extension of the
Standard Model (effMSSM) we calculate the neutralino relic density taking into
account slepton-neutralino, squark-neutralino and neutralino/chargino-
neutralino coannihilation channels. By including squark (stop and sbottom)
coannihilation channels we extend our comparative study to all allowed
coannihilations and obtain the general result that all of them give sizable
contributions to the reduction of the neutralino relic density. Due to these
coannihilation processes some models (mostly with large neutralino masses)
enter into the cosmologically interesting region for relic density, but other
models leave this region. Nevertheless, in general, the predictions for direct
and indirect dark matter detection rates are not strongly affected by these
coannihilation channels in the effMSSM.Comment: 14 pages, 10 figures, corrected and to be published in Phys. Rev.
Total photoproduction cross-section at very high energy
In this paper we apply to photoproduction total cross-section a model we have
proposed for purely hadronic processes and which is based on QCD mini-jets and
soft gluon re-summation. We compare the predictions of our model with the HERA
data as well as with other models. For cosmic rays, our model predicts
substantially higher cross-sections at TeV energies than models based on
factorization but lower than models based on mini-jets alone, without soft
gluons. We discuss the origin of this difference.Comment: 13 pages, 9 figures. Accepted for publication in EPJC. Changes
concern added references, clarifications of the Soft Gluon Resummation method
used in the paper, and other changes requested by the Journal referee which
do not change the results of the original versio
Hadronic Cross-sections in two photon Processes at a Future Linear Collider
In this note we address the issue of measurability of the hadronic
cross-sections at a future photon collider as well as for the two-photon
processes at a future high energy linear collider. We extend, to
higher energy, our previous estimates of the accuracy with which the \gamgam\
cross-section needs to be measured, in order to distinguish between different
theoretical models of energy dependence of the total cross-sections. We show
that the necessary precision to discriminate among these models is indeed
possible at future linear colliders in the Photon Collider option. Further we
note that even in the option a measurement of the hadron production
cross-section via \gamgam processes, with an accuracy necessary to allow
discrimination between different theoretical models, should be possible. We
also comment briefly on the implications of these predictions for hadronic
backgrounds at the future TeV energy collider CLIC.Comment: 20 pages, 5 figures, LaTeX. Added an acknowledgemen
Dark matter and Colliders searches in the MSSM
We study the complementarity between dark matter experiments (direct
detection and indirect detections) and accelerator facilities (the CERN LHC and
a TeV Linear Collider) in the framework of the
constrained Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model (MSSM). We show how
non--universality in the scalar and gaugino sectors can affect the experimental
prospects to discover the supersymmetric particles. The future experiments will
cover a large part of the parameter space of the MSSM favored by WMAP
constraint on the relic density, but there still exist some regions beyond
reach for some extreme (fine tuned) values of the supersymmetric parameters.
Whereas the Focus Point region characterized by heavy scalars will be easily
probed by experiments searching for dark matter, the regions with heavy
gauginos and light sfermions will be accessible more easily by collider
experiments. More informations on both supersymmetry and astrophysics
parameters can be thus obtained by correlating the different signals.Comment: 25 pages, 10 figures, corrected typos and reference adde