Abstract
We propose that the fermionic superpartner of a weak-scale Goldstone boson can be a natural WIMP candidate. The p-wave annihilation of this 'Goldstone fermion' into pairs of Goldstone bosons automatically generates the correct relic abundance, whereas the XENON100 direct detection bounds are evaded due to suppressed couplings to the Standard Model. Further, it is able to avoid indirect detection constraints because the relevant s-wave annihilations are small. The interactions of the Goldstone supermultiplet can induce non-standard Higgs decays and novel collider phenomenology.
| Original language | English (US) |
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| Article number | 35 |
| Journal | Journal of High Energy Physics |
| Volume | 2011 |
| Issue number | 9 |
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| State | Published - 2011 |
Keywords
- Beyond standard model
- Cosmology of theories beyond the SM
- Supersymmetric effective theories
- Supersymmetric standard model
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Nuclear and High Energy Physics