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Implications of a possible 115 GeV supersymmetric Higgs boson on detection and cosmological abundance of relic neutralinos

A. Bottino, N. Fornengo, S. Scopel

hep-pharXiv:hep-ph/0012377

Abstract

We show that a supersymmetric neutral Higgs boson with a mass of about 115 GeV and with the other prerequisites required by the LEP Higgs events would be compatible with the detection of relic neutralinos in current set-ups for WIMP direct search. Thus this putative Higgs would fit remarkably well in an interpretation in terms of relic neutralinos of the annual-modulation effect recently measured in a WIMP direct experiment. We also show that the cosmological abundance of the relevant neutralinos reaches values of cosmological interest.

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