scholarly journals Cosmological Constraints for the Cold Dark Matter and Model Building Based on the Flavor Symmetric Radiative Seesaw Model

2008 ◽  
Vol 172 ◽  
pp. 220-223
Author(s):  
Hiroshi Okada
Keyword(s):  
Dark Matter ◽  
Cold Dark Matter ◽  
Model Building ◽  
Cosmological Constraints ◽  
Seesaw Model

INVESTIGATIONS OF THE FLAVOR SYMMETRY, RADIATIVE SEESAW MODEL AND COLD DARK MATTER

2007 ◽  
Vol 16 (05) ◽  
pp. 1541-1556
Author(s):  
HIROSHI OKADA
Keyword(s):  
Dark Matter ◽  
Cold Dark Matter ◽  
Vacuum Expectation ◽  
The Other ◽  
Type Model ◽  
Flavor Symmetry ◽  
Heavy Particles ◽  
Neutrino Sector ◽  
Seesaw Model ◽  
The Masses

It is now clear that the masses of the neutrino sector are much lighter than those of the other three sectors. Canonial seesaw model would be the most famous for the above explanation. But one must introduce heavy particles that will not be able to observed with present scientific technologies. On the other hand, there are many attempts to explain the neutrino masses radiatively by means of inert Higgses, which do not have the vacuum expectation values. Then one can discuss cold dark matter candidates, because of no needing so heavy particles. The most famous work would be the Zee model17. Recently a new type model (hep-ph/0601225)4 along this line of thought was proposed by E. Ma. We adopted this idea, and then we introduced a new flavor symmetry to constrain the Yukawa sector. So our model might be more predictive, and can be investigated at LHC. I will present how we can obserb the particular signal at LHC, and what we can predict about the neutrino sector.

scholarly journals Dark matter from Starobinsky supergravity

2017 ◽  
Vol 32 (15) ◽  
pp. 1740002 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrea Addazi ◽  
Maxim Yu. Khlopov
Keyword(s):  
Dark Matter ◽  
Cold Dark Matter ◽  
Model Building ◽  
The Other ◽  
Unified Theory ◽  
Grand Unified Theory ◽  
Slow Roll ◽  
Dark Matters ◽  
Brane Models ◽  
The Right

We review our recent results on dark matter from Starobinsky supergravity. In this context, a natural candidate for cold dark matter is the gravitino. On the other hand, assuming the supersymmetry broken at scales much higher than the electroweak scale, gravitinos are superheavy particles. In this case, they may be non-thermally produced during inflation, in turn originated by the scalaron field with Starobinsky’s potential. Assuming gravitinos as Lightest Supersymmetric Particles (LSSP), the non-thermal production naturally accounts for the right amount of cold dark matter. Metastability of the gravitino LSSP leads to observable effects of their decay, putting constraints on the corresponding Unstable or Decaying Dark Matters scenarios. In this model, the gravitino mass is controlled by the inflaton field and it runs with it. This implies that a continuous spectrum of superheavy gravitinos is produced during the slow-roll epoch. Implications in phenomenology, model building in Grand Unified Theory (GUT) scenarios, intersecting D-brane models and instantons in string theories are discussed.

scholarly journals Cosmological Constraints on Mirror Matter Parameters

2014 ◽  
Vol 2014 ◽  
pp. 1-7
Author(s):  
Paolo Ciarcelluti ◽  
Quentin Wallemacq
Keyword(s):  
Monte Carlo ◽  
Dark Matter ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Cold Dark Matter ◽  
Cosmological Parameters ◽  
Linear Regime ◽  
Microwave Background ◽  
Cosmological Constraints ◽  
Upper Limits ◽  
Mirror Matter

Up-to-date estimates of the cosmological parameters are presented as a result of numerical simulations of cosmic microwave background and large scale structure, considering a flat Universe in which the dark matter is made entirely or partly of mirror matter, and the primordial perturbations are scalar adiabatic and in linear regime. A statistical analysis using the Markov Chain Monte Carlo method allows to obtain constraints of the cosmological parameters. As a result, we show that a Universe with pure mirror dark matter is statistically equivalent to the case of an admixture with cold dark matter. The upper limits for the ratio of the temperatures of ordinary and mirror sectors are around 0.3 for both the cosmological models, which show the presence of a dominant fraction of mirror matter,0.06≲Ωmirrorh2≲0.12.

Physics of superheavy dark matter in supergravity

2018 ◽  
Vol 27 (06) ◽  
pp. 1841011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrea Addazi ◽  
Antonino Marciano ◽  
Sergei V. Ketov ◽  
Maxim Yu. Khlopov
Keyword(s):  
Dark Matter ◽  
Gauge Symmetry ◽  
Particle Physics ◽  
Cold Dark Matter ◽  
Model Building ◽  
Density Fluctuations ◽  
String Compactifications ◽  
Matter Production ◽  
The Right ◽  
Superheavy Dark Matter

New trends in inflationary model building and dark matter production in supergravity are considered. Starobinsky inflation is embedded into [Formula: see text] supergravity, avoiding instability problems, when the inflaton belongs to a vector superfield associated with a [Formula: see text] gauge symmetry, instead of a chiral superfield. This gauge symmetry can be spontaneously broken by the super-Higgs mechanism resulting in a massive vector supermultiplet including the (real scalar) inflaton field. Both supersymmetry (SUSY) and the R-symmetry can also be spontaneously broken by the Polonyi mechanism at high scales close to the inflationary scale. In this case, Polonyi particles and gravitinos become superheavy, and can be copiously produced during inflation by the Schwinger mechanism sourced by the universe expansion. The Polonyi mass slightly exceeds twice the gravitino mass, so that Polonyi particles are unstable and decay into gravitinos. Considering the mechanisms of superheavy gravitino production, we find that the right amount of cold dark matter composed of gravitinos can be achieved. In our scenario, the parameter space of the inflaton potential is directly related to the dark matter one, providing a new unifying framework of inflation and dark matter genesis. A multi-superfield extension of the supergravity framework with a single (inflaton) superfield can result in a formation of primordial nonlinear structures like mini- and stellar-mass black holes, primordial nongaussianity, and the running spectral index of density fluctuations. This framework can be embedded into the SUSY GUTs inspired by heterotic string compactifications on Calabi–Yau three-folds, thus unifying particle physics with quantum gravity.

Bolometric Detection of Cold Dark Matter Candidates

1988 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. K. Drukier ◽  
Katherine Freese ◽  
Joshua Frieman
Keyword(s):  
Dark Matter ◽  
Cold Dark Matter ◽  
Bolometric Detection

scholarly journals Detecting Cold Dark Matter Candidates

1987 ◽  
Vol 117 ◽  
pp. 490-490
Author(s):  
A. K. Drukier ◽  
K. Freese ◽  
D. N. Spergel
Keyword(s):  
Dark Matter ◽  
Cold Dark Matter ◽  
Galactic Halo ◽  
Dark Matter Particle ◽  
Low Energy ◽  
The Sun ◽  
Background Rate ◽  
System Noise ◽  
Weakly Interacting ◽  
Massive Neutrinos

We consider the use of superheated superconducting colloids as detectors of weakly interacting galactic halo candidate particles (e.g. photinos, massive neutrinos, and scalar neutrinos). These low temperature detectors are sensitive to the deposition of a few hundreds of eV's. The recoil of a dark matter particle off of a superheated superconducting grain in the detector causes the grain to make a transition to the normal state. Their low energy threshold makes this class of detectors ideal for detecting massive weakly interacting halo particles.We discuss realistic models for the detector and for the galactic halo. We show that the expected count rate (≈103 count/day for scalar and massive neutrinos) exceeds the expected background by several orders of magnitude. For photinos, we expect ≈1 count/day, more than 100 times the predicted background rate. We find that if the detector temperature is maintained at 50 mK and the system noise is reduced below 5 × 10−4 flux quanta, particles with mass as low as 2 GeV can be detected. We show that the earth's motion around the Sun can produce a significant annual modulation in the signal.

scholarly journals The impact of inelastic self-interacting dark matter on the dark matter structure of a Milky Way halo

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kun Ting Eddie Chua ◽  
Karia Dibert ◽  
Mark Vogelsberger ◽  
Jesús Zavala
Keyword(s):  
Dark Matter ◽  
High Speed ◽  
Cold Dark Matter ◽  
Milky Way ◽  
Direct Detection ◽  
Major Axis ◽  
Inelastic Collisions ◽  
Axis Ratio ◽  
Lower Velocity ◽  
The Impact

Abstract We study the effects of inelastic dark matter self-interactions on the internal structure of a simulated Milky Way (MW)-size halo. Self-interacting dark matter (SIDM) is an alternative to collisionless cold dark matter (CDM) which offers a unique solution to the problems encountered with CDM on sub-galactic scales. Although previous SIDM simulations have mainly considered elastic collisions, theoretical considerations motivate the existence of multi-state dark matter where transitions from the excited to the ground state are exothermic. In this work, we consider a self-interacting, two-state dark matter model with inelastic collisions, implemented in the Arepo code. We find that energy injection from inelastic self-interactions reduces the central density of the MW halo in a shorter timescale relative to the elastic scale, resulting in a larger core size. Inelastic collisions also isotropize the orbits, resulting in an overall lower velocity anisotropy for the inelastic MW halo. In the inner halo, the inelastic SIDM case (minor-to-major axis ratio s ≡ c/a ≈ 0.65) is more spherical than the CDM (s ≈ 0.4), but less spherical than the elastic SIDM case (s ≈ 0.75). The speed distribution f(v) of dark matter particles at the location of the Sun in the inelastic SIDM model shows a significant departure from the CDM model, with f(v) falling more steeply at high speeds. In addition, the velocity kicks imparted during inelastic collisions produce unbound high-speed particles with velocities up to 500 km s−1 throughout the halo. This implies that inelastic SIDM can potentially leave distinct signatures in direct detection experiments, relative to elastic SIDM and CDM.

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