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3.5 keV x-ray line from decaying gravitino dark matter

N.-E. Bomark and L. Roszkowski
Phys. Rev. D 90, 011701(R) – Published 18 July 2014

Abstract

Extremely weakly interacting particles like the gravitino may be stable enough on cosmological time scales to constitute a good dark matter candidate even in the presence of R-parity violation. We consider the possibility that the recently identified 3.5 keV x-ray line can be generated in light gravitino decays to neutrinos and photons. We find that this is indeed possible in loop processes induced by trilinear lepton-number-violating couplings. We show that in order to avoid overproduction of gravitinos, the reheating temperature has to be at most around 100 GeV to 1 TeV. Finally we briefly discuss associated LHC phenomenology due to a relatively light gluino and multijet/multilepton events from R-parity-violating decays of neutralinos.

  • Received 31 March 2014

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.90.011701

© 2014 American Physical Society

Authors & Affiliations

N.-E. Bomark* and L. Roszkowski

  • National Centre for Nuclear Research, Hoża 69, 00-681 Warsaw, Poland

  • *nilserik.bomark@gmail.com
  • On leave of absence from the University of Sheffield, Sheffield, South Yorkshire S10 2TN, United Kingdom. leszek.Roszkowski@fuw.edu.pl.

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Vol. 90, Iss. 1 — 1 July 2014

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