Decaying Dark Matter in the Supersymmetric Standard Model with Freeze-in and Seesaw mechanims
Abstract
Inspired by the decaying dark matter (DM) which can explain cosmic ray anomalies naturally, we consider the supersymmetric Standard Model with three right-handed neutrinos (RHNs) and R-parity, and introduce a TeV-scale DM sector with two fields φ1,2 and a Z3 discrete symmetry. The DM sector only interacts with the RHNs via a very heavy field exchange and then we can explain the cosmic ray anomalies. With the second right-handed neutrino N2 dominant seesaw mechanism at the low scale around 104 GeV, we show that φ1,2 can obtain the vacuum expectation values around the TeV scale, and then the lightest state from φ1,2 is the decay DM with lifetime around 1026s. In particular, the DM very long lifetime is related to the tiny neutrino masses, and the dominant DM decay channels to μ and τ are related to the approximate μ-τ symmetry. Furthermore, the correct DM relic density can be obtained via the freeze-in mechanism, the small-scale problem for power spectrum can be solved due to the decays of the R-parity odd meta-stable states in the DM sector, and the baryon asymmetry can be generated via the soft leptogensis.
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