Dark Matter and Cosmic Rays from Light Gauginos

Abstract

An attractive class of SUSY-breaking mechanisms predicts a photino mass of order 1 GeV. Relic photinos can naturally account for the observed dark matter. Detection of these light photinos is discussed and contrasted with conventional WIMPs. In this scenario the gluino mass is about 100 MeV. The lightest gluino-containing baryon could account for the recently observed ultra-high energy cosmic rays, which violate the GZK bound.

Comments: Invited talk IDM96, Sheffield, England, Sept. 1996. 7 pages with 2 figs, latex