|
|
Creator | Title | Description | Subject | Date |
1 |
 | Gondolo, Paolo | Clumpy neutralino dark matter | We investigate the possibility to detect neutralino dark matter in a scenario in which the galactic dark halo is clumpy. We find that under customary assumptions on various astrophysical parameters, the antiproton and continuum γ-ray signals from neutralino annihilation in the halo put the strong... | Neutralinos; Clumpiness | 1999-01 |
2 |
 | Gondolo, Paolo | Compatibility of DAMA dark matter detection with other searches | We present two examples of velocity distributions for light dark matter particles that reconcile the annual modulation signal observed by DAMA with all other negative results from dark matter searches. They are: (1) a conventional Maxwellian distribution for particle masses around 5 to 9 GeV; (2) ... | DAMA; CDMS; Neutralinos; WIMP; Weakly interacting massive particles; Halo models; Dark matter stream | 2005-06 |
3 |
 | Gondolo, Paolo | Cosmic ray positron excess and neutralino dark matter | Using a new instrument, the HEAT Collaboration has confirmed the excess of cosmic ray positrons that they first detected in 1994. We explore the possibility that this excess is due to the annihilation of neutralino dark matter in the galactic halo. We confirm that neutralino annihilation can produ... | Neutralinos; Supersymmetric models; Positron flux; Annihilations | 2002-02 |
4 |
 | Gondolo, Paolo | Dark matter annihilation at the galactic center | Cold dark matter near the galactic center is accreted by the central black hole into a dense spike. Particle dark matter annihilation makes the spike a compact source of photons, electrons, positrons, protons, antiprotons, and neutrinos. The spike luminosity depends on the halo density profile: halo... | Neutralinos; Neutrino flux | 1999-08 |
5 |
 | Gondolo, Paolo | Dark matter in the MSSM golden region | Dark matter is examined within the ‘‘golden region'' of the minimal supersymmetric standard model. This region satisfies experimental constraints, including a lower bound on the Higgs mass of 114 GeV, and minimizes fine-tuning of the Z boson mass. Here we impose additional constraints (particula... | MSSM golden region; Neutralinos; Higgs mass | 2009-02 |
6 |
 | Gondolo, Paolo | Direct detection of neutralino dark matter in nonstandard cosmologies | We compute the neutralino direct detection rate in nonstandard cosmological scenarios where neutralinos account for the dark matter of the Universe. Significant differences are found when such rates are compared with those predicted by the standard cosmological model. For b-ino-like neutralinos, the... | Neutralinos | 2008-02 |
7 |
 | Gondolo, Paolo | Effect of a late decaying scalar on the neutralino relic density | If the energy density of the Universe before nucleosynthesis is dominated by a scalar field Ø that decays and reheats the plasma to a temperature TRH smaller than the standard neutralino freeze-out temperature, the neutralino relic density differs from its standard value. In this case, the relic de... | Neutralinos; Relic density; Reheating temperature | 2006-10 |
8 |
 | Gondolo, Paolo | Implications of muon anomalous magnetic moment for supersymmetric dark matter | The anomalous magnetic moment of the muon has recently been measured to be in conflict with the standard model prediction with an excess of 2.6s. Taking the excess at face value as a measurement of the supersymmetric contribution, we find that at 95% confidence level it imposes an upper bound of 50... | Magnetic moment; Neutralinos | 2001-05 |
9 |
 | Gondolo, Paolo | Improved constraints on supersymmetric dark matter from muon g-2 | The new measurement of the anomalous magnetic moment of the muon by the Brookhaven AGS experiment 821 again shows a discrepancy with the standard model value. We investigate the consequences of these new data for neutralino dark matter, updating and extending our previous work [E. A. Baltz and P. ... | Magnetic moment; Neutralinos | 2003-03 |
10 |
 | Gondolo, Paolo | Indirect neutralino detection rates in neutrino telescopes | Neutralinos annihilating in the center of the Sun or the Earth may give rise to a detectable signal of neutrinos. We derive the indirect detection rates for neutrino telescopes in the minimal supersymmetric extension of the standard model. We show that even after imposing all phenomenological and e... | Neutralinos; Neutrino telescopes; Relic density; Annihilations | 1997-02 |
11 |
 | Gondolo, Paolo | Neutralino dark matter vs galaxy formation | Neutralino dark matter may be incompatible with current cold dark matter models with cuspy dark halos, because excessive synchrotron radiation may originate from neutralino annihilations close to the black hole at the galactic center. | Neutralinos; Cuspy dark halos | 2000 |
12 |
 | Gondolo, Paolo | Neutralino decay rates with explicit R-parity violation | We compute the neutralino decay rate in the minimal supersymmetric standard model with the addition of explicit R-parity violation. We include the complete squark and slepton mixing matrices, previously neglected, and we improve and correct published formulas. These decays are relevant to accelerat... | Neutralinos; R-parity; Decay rates; Sfermions | 1998-03 |
13 |
 | Gondolo, Paolo | Neutralino relic density including coannihilations | We evaluate the relic density of the lightest neutralino, the lightest supersymmetric particle, in the minimal supersymmetric extension of the standard model. For the first time, we include all coannihilation processes between neutralinos and charginos for any neutralino mass and composition. We u... | Neutralinos; Charginos; Higgsinos; Relic density; Coannihilations; Boltzmann equation | 1997-08 |
14 |
 | Gondolo, Paolo | Neutralino with the right cold dark matter abundance in (almost) any supersymmetric model | We consider nonstandard cosmological models in which the late decay of a scalar field Ø reheats the Universe to a low reheating temperature, between 5 MeV and the standard freeze-out temperature of neutralinos of mass mx. We point out that in these models all neutralinos with standard density Ώstd... | Neutralinos; Reheating temperature | 2006-07 |
15 |
 | Gondolo, Paolo | Neutralinos as dark matter in the minimal supergravity model | A new approach to the phenomenological study of the minimal supergravity model is presented in which the model is effectively parametrized in terms of five low energy observables. Radiative corrections due to large Yukawa couplings and particle-sparticle mass splitting are included into the analysis... | Neutralinos | 1992 |
16 |
 | Gondolo, Paolo | Physics of the very early universe: what can we learn from cosmological observations? | Cosmological observations are starting to probe the evolution of the Universe before nucleosynthesis. The observed fluctuations in the cosmic microwave background and in the distribution of matter can be traced back to their origin during inflation, and the inflaton potential has begun to be unrave... | Neutralinos; Inflatons; Moduli fields | 2006 |
17 |
 | Gondolo, Paolo | Stellar orbit constraints on neutralino annihilation at the galactic center | Dark matter annihilation has been proposed to explain the TeV gamma rays observed from the Galactic Center. We study constraints on this hypothesis coming from the mass profile around the Galactic Center measured by observing stellar dynamics. We show that for several proposed WIMP candidates, the... | Neutralinos; Annihilation | 2006-09 |