Comparison of neutralino and sneutrino dark matter in a model with spontaneous CP violation

Abstract

Supersymmetric extensions to the standard model provide viable dark matter candidates, and can introduce additional charge-parity (CP) violation, needed for obtaining the observed baryon asymmetry of the universe. We study the possibilities of scalar and neutralino dark matter with spontaneous CP violation in the next-to-minimal supersymmetric standard model with a right handed neutrino. The observed relic density can be produced both by neutralino and right handed sneutrino as the lightest supersymmetric particle, but when CP is violated, the new annihilation channels lower the achieved relic density in general. We consider collider phenomenology in a number of benchmark points, in which all experimental constraints are satisfied, and either the neutralino or the right handed sneutrino contribute to the dark matter abundance.

Comments: v2: corrected spelling, edited for clarity, added description of experimental bound, added local report number