Ask a Question

Prefer a chat interface with context about you and your work?

Higgsino dark matter and the cosmological gravitino problem

Higgsino dark matter and the cosmological gravitino problem

We motivate Higgsino dark matter from a solution to the cosmological moduli/gravitino problem. Cosmological moduli/gravitino should be heavy enough to decay before the onset of Big Bang Nucleosynthesis, and this requirement typically forces gauginos to have masses above a TeV in Type IIB compactifications. Higgsinos emerge as the viable sub-TeV …