The Photino Induced Distortion of the CMBR Blackbody Spectrum

Abstract

It is shown that photon--photino inter-conversions (if exist) may result in a detectable CMBR spectrum distortion which amplitude depends on photino properties, such as its mass. An upper bound on the distortion parameter determined from the recent COBE-FIRAS data, hence, sets a lower bound on the photino mass, $m_{\tilde{\gamma }}\gtrsim 300eV$.

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