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Relic Abundance of Neutralinos in Heterotic String Theory: Weak Coupling vs. Strong Coupling

Y. Kawamura, H. P. Nilles, M. Olechowski, M. Yamaguchi

hep-pharXiv:hep-ph/9805397

Abstract

The relic abundance of stable neutralinos is investigated in E8 × E8' heterotic string theory when supersymmetry is spontaneously broken by hidden-sector gaugino condensates. In the weak coupling regime, very large scalar masses (compared to gaugino masses) are shown to lead to a too large relic abundance of the neutralinos, incompatible with cosmological observations in most of parameter space. The problem does not arise in the strong coupling regime (heterotic M-theory) because there scalar and gaugino masses are generically of the same order of magnitude.

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