Indirect and direct detection prospects for TeV dark matter in the nine parameter MSMM

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Publication date 01-08-2015
Journal Physical Review D. Particles and Fields
Article number 035018
Volume | Issue number 92 | 3
Number of pages 8
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  • Faculty of Science (FNWI) - Institute of Physics (IoP) - Institute for High Energy Physics (IHEF)
Abstract
We investigate the prospects of indirect and direct dark matter searches within the minimal supersymmetric standard model with nine parameters (MSSM-9). These nine parameters include three gaugino masses, Higgs, slepton and squark masses, all treated independently. We perform a Bayesian Monte Carlo scan of the parameter space taking into consideration all available particle physics constraints such as the Higgs mass of 126 GeV, upper limits on the scattering cross section from direct-detection experiments, and assuming that the MSSM-9 provides all the dark matter abundance through a thermal freeze-out mechanism. Within this framework we find the two most probable regions for dark matter: 1-TeV Higgsino-like and 3-TeV Wino-like neutralinos. We discuss prospects for future indirect [in particular the Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA)] and direct detection experiments. We find that for slightly contracted dark matter profiles in our Galaxy, which can be caused by the effects of baryonic infall in the Galactic center, CTA will be able to probe a large fraction of the remaining allowed region in synergy with future direct detection experiments like XENON-1T.
Document type Article
Note © 2015 American Physical Society
Language Dutch
Published at https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.92.035018
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