Gravitino/Axino as Decaying Dark Matter and Cosmological Tensions

Abstract

In supersymmetric axion models, if the gravitino or axino is the lightest SUSY particle (LSP), the other is often the next-to-LSP (NLSP). We investigate the cosmology of such a scenario and point out that the lifetime of the NLSP naturally becomes comparable to the present age of the universe in a viable parameter region. This is a well-motivated example of the so-called decaying dark matter model, which is recently considered as an extension of the $\Lambda$CDM model to relax some cosmological tensions.

Comments: 16 pages, 2 figures, Journal version