Gamma-Ray Spectrum from Gravitino Dark Matter Decay
- 13 February 2008
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 100 (6) , 061301
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.100.061301
Abstract
Gravitinos are very promising candidates for the cold dark matter of the Universe. Interestingly, to achieve a sufficiently long gravitino lifetime, parity conservation is not required, thus preventing any dangerous cosmological influence of the next-to-lightest supersymmetric particle. When parity is violated, gravitinos decay into photons and other particles with a lifetime much longer than the age of the Universe, producing a diffuse gamma-ray flux with a characteristic spectrum that could be measured in future experiments, such as GLAST or AMS-02. In this Letter we compute the energy spectrum of photons from gravitino decay and discuss its main qualitative features.
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