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Right-handed sneutrino and gravitino multicomponent dark matter in light of neutrino detectors

Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, Volume 2023, No. 4, Article 050, Year 2023

We investigate the possibility that right-handed (RH) sneutrinos and gravitinos can coexist and explain the dark matter (DM) problem. We compare extensions of the minimal supersymmetric standard model (MSSM) and the next-to-MSSM (NMSSM) adding RH neutrinos superfields, with special emphasis on the latter. If the gravitino is the lightest supersymmetric particle (LSP) and the RH sneutrino the next-to-LSP (NLSP), the heavier particle decays to the former plus left-handed (LH) neutrinos through the mixing between the scalar partners of the LH and RH neutrinos. However, the interaction is suppressed by the Planck mass, and if the LH-RH sneutrino mixing parameter is small, ≪ O(10-2), a long-lived RH sneutrino NLSP is possible even surpassing the age of the Universe. As a byproduct, the NLSP to LSP decay produces monochromatic neutrinos in the ballpark of current and planned neutrino telescopes like Super-Kamiokande, IceCube and Antares that we use to set constraints and show prospects of detection. In the NMSSM+RHN, assuming a gluino mass parameter M 3 = 3 TeV we found the following lower limits for the gravitino mass m 3/2 ≳ 1-600 GeV and the reheating temperature T R ≳ 105 - 3 × 107 GeV, for mν̃R 10-800 GeV. If we take M 3 = 10 TeV, then the limits on TR are relaxed by one order of magnitude.
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