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Marquez-Martin, I.; Di Molfetta, G.; Perez, A. |
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Fermion confinement via quantum walks in (2+1)-dimensional and (3+1)-dimensional space-time |
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2017 |
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Physical Review A |
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Phys. Rev. A |
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95 |
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042112 - 5pp |
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We analyze the properties of a two-and three-dimensional quantum walk that are inspired by the idea of a brane-world model put forward by Rubakov and Shaposhnikov [Phys. Lett. B 125, 136 (1983)]. In that model, particles are dynamically confined on the brane due to the interaction with a scalar field. We translated this model into an alternate quantum walk with a coin that depends on the external field, with a dependence which mimics a domain wall solution. As in the original model, fermions (in our case, the walker) become localized in one of the dimensions, not from the action of a random noise on the lattice (as in the case of Anderson localization) but from a regular dependence in space. On the other hand, the resulting quantum walk can move freely along the “ordinary” dimensions. |
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[Marquez-Martin, I.; Di Molfetta, G.; Perez, A.] Univ Valencia, CSIC, Dept Fis Teor, Dr Moliner 50, E-46100 Burjassot, Spain, Email: giuseppe.dimolfetta@lif.univ-mrs.fr |
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WOS:000399931500006 |
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IFIC @ pastor @ |
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Arrighi, P.; Di Molfetta, G.; Marquez-Martin, I.; Perez, A. |
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Dirac equation as a quantum walk over the honeycomb and triangular lattices |
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2018 |
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Physical Review A |
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Phys. Rev. A |
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97 |
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6 |
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062111 - 5pp |
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A discrete-time quantum walk (QW) is essentially an operator driving the evolution of a single particle on the lattice, through local unitaries. Some QWs admit a continuum limit, leading to well-known physics partial differential equations, such as the Dirac equation. We show that these simulation results need not rely on the grid: the Dirac equation in (2 + 1) dimensions can also be simulated, through local unitaries, on the honeycomb or the triangular lattice, both of interest in the study of quantum propagation on the nonrectangular grids, as in graphene-like materials. The latter, in particular, we argue, opens the door for a generalization of the Dirac equation to arbitrary discrete surfaces. |
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[Arrighi, Pablo; Di Molfetta, Giuseppe; Marquez-Martin, Ivan] Aix Marseille Univ, Univ Toulon, LIS, CNRS, Marseille, France, Email: pablo.arrighi@univ-amu.fr; |
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WOS:000435076800001 |
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IFIC @ pastor @ |
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Marquez-Martin, I.; Arnault, P.; Di Molfetta, G.; Perez, A. |
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Electromagnetic lattice gauge invariance in two-dimensional discrete-time quantum walks |
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2018 |
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Physical Review A |
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Phys. Rev. A |
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98 |
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3 |
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032333 - 8pp |
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Gauge invariance is one of the more important concepts in physics. We discuss this concept in connection with the unitary evolution of discrete-time quantum walks in one and two spatial dimensions, when they include the interaction with synthetic, external electromagnetic fields. One introduces this interaction as additional phases that play the role of gauge fields. Here, we present a way to incorporate those phases, which differs from previous works. Our proposal allows the discrete derivatives, that appear under a gauge transformation, to treat time and space on the same footing, in a way which is similar to standard lattice gauge theories. By considering two steps of the evolution, we define a density current which is gauge invariant and conserved. In the continuum limit, the dynamics of the particle, under a suitable choice of the parameters, becomes the Dirac equation and the conserved current satisfies the corresponding conservation equation. |
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[Marquez-Martin, Ivan; Arnault, Pablo; Di Molfetta, Giuseppe; Perez, Armando] Univ Valencia, Dept Fis Teor, Dr Moliner 50, E-46100 Burjassot, Spain, Email: ivan.marquez@uv.es; |
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WOS:000446163200006 |
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IFIC @ pastor @ |
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3750 |
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Arnault, P.; Perez, A.; Arrighi, P.; Farrelly, T. |
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Discrete-time quantum walks as fermions of lattice gauge theory |
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Journal Article |
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2019 |
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Physical Review A |
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Phys. Rev. A |
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99 |
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3 |
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032110 - 16pp |
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It is shown that discrete-time quantum walks can be used to digitize, i.e., to time discretize fermionic models of continuous-time lattice gauge theory. The resulting discrete-time dynamics is thus not only manifestly unitary, but also ultralocal, i.e., the particle's speed is upper bounded, as in standard relativistic quantum field theories. The lattice chiral symmetry of staggered fermions, which corresponds to a translational invariance, is lost after the requirement of ultralocality of the evolution; this fact is an instance of Meyer's 1996 no-go results stating that no nontrivial scalar quantum cellular automaton can be translationally invariant [D. A. Meyer, J. Stat. Phys. 85, 551 (1996); Phys. Lett. A 223, 337 (1996)]. All results are presented in a single-particle framework and for a (1+1)-dimensional space-time. |
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[Arnault, Pablo; Perez, Armando] Univ Valencia, Dept Fis Teor, Dr Moliner 50, E-46100 Burjassot, Spain, Email: pablo.arnault@ific.uv.es |
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WOS:000461896700002 |
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IFIC @ pastor @ |
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Arrighi, P.; Di Molfetta, G.; Marquez-Martin, I.; Perez, A. |
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From curved spacetime to spacetime-dependent local unitaries over the honeycomb and triangular Quantum Walks |
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2019 |
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Scientific Reports |
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Sci Rep |
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9 |
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10904 - 10pp |
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A discrete-time Quantum Walk (QW) is an operator driving the evolution of a single particle on the lattice, through local unitaries. In a previous paper, we showed that QWs over the honeycomb and triangular lattices can be used to simulate the Dirac equation. We apply a spacetime coordinate transformation upon the lattice of this QW, and show that it is equivalent to introducing spacetime-dependent local unitaries-whilst keeping the lattice fixed. By exploiting this duality between changes in geometry, and changes in local unitaries, we show that the spacetime-dependent QW simulates the Dirac equation in (2 + 1)-dimensional curved spacetime. Interestingly, the duality crucially relies on the non linear-independence of the three preferred directions of the honeycomb and triangular lattices: The same construction would fail for the square lattice. At the practical level, this result opens the possibility to simulate field theories on curved manifolds, via the quantum walk on different kinds of lattices. |
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[Arrighi, Pablo; Di Molfetta, Giuseppe; Marquez-Martin, Ivan] Univ Toulon & Var, Aix Marseille Univ, CNRS, LIS, Marseille, France, Email: pablo.arrighi@univ-amu.fr; |
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WOS:000477701800007 |
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IFIC @ pastor @ |
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4081 |
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Arnault, P.; Pepper, B.; Perez, A. |
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Quantum walks in weak electric fields and Bloch oscillations |
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Journal Article |
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2020 |
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Physical Review A |
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Phys. Rev. A |
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101 |
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6 |
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062324 - 12pp |
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Bloch oscillations appear when an electric field is superimposed on a quantum particle that evolves on a lattice with a tight-binding Hamiltonian (TBH), i.e., evolves via what we call an electric TBH; this phenomenon will be referred to as TBH Bloch oscillations. A similar phenomenon is known to show up in so-called electric discrete-time quantum walks (DQWs) [C. Cedzich et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 160601 (2013);] this phenomenon will be referred to as DQW Bloch oscillations. This similarity is particularly salient when the electric field of the DQW is weak. For a wide, i.e., spatially extended, initial condition, one numerically observes semiclassical oscillations, i.e., oscillations of a localized particle, for both the electric TBH and the electric DQW. More precisely, the numerical simulations strongly suggest that the semiclassical DQW Bloch oscillations correspond to two counterpropagating semiclassical TBH Bloch oscillations. In this work it is shown that, under certain assumptions, the solution of the electric DQW for a weak electric field and a wide initial condition is well approximated by the superposition of two continuous-time expressions, which are counterpropagating solutions of an electric TBH whose hopping amplitude is the cosine of the arbitrary coin-operator mixing angle. In contrast, if one wishes the continuous-time approximation to hold for spatially localized initial conditions, one needs at least the DQW to be lazy, as suggested by numerical simulations and by the fact that this has been proven in the case of a vanishing electric field [F. W. Strauch, Phys. Rev. A 74, 030301(R) (2006)]. |
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[Arnault, Pablo; Pepper, Benjamin; Perez, A.] Univ Valencia, CSIC, Dept Fis Teor, Cerrer Dr Moliner 50, Burjassot 46100, Spain, Email: pablo.arnault@ific.uv.es; |
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Amer Physical Soc |
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WOS:000541400900002 |
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IFIC @ pastor @ |
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4431 |
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Angles-Castillo, A.; Perez, A. |
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A quantum walk simulation of extra dimensions with warped geometry |
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2022 |
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Scientific Reports |
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Sci Rep |
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12 |
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1 |
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1926 - 12pp |
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We investigate the properties of a quantum walk which can simulate the behavior of a spin 1/2 particle in a model with an ordinary spatial dimension, and one extra dimension with warped geometry between two branes. Such a setup constitutes a 1+ 1 dimensional version of the Randall-Sundrum model, which plays an important role in high energy physics. In the continuum spacetime limit, the quantum walk reproduces the Dirac equation corresponding to the model, which allows to anticipate some of the properties that can be reproduced by the quantum walk. In particular, we observe that the probability distribution becomes, at large time steps, concentrated near the “low energy” brane, and can be approximated as the lowest eigenstate of the continuum Hamiltonian that is compatible with the symmetries of the model. In this way, we obtain a localization effect whose strength is controlled by a warp coefficient. In other words, here localization arises from the geometry of the model, at variance with the usual effect that is originated from random irregularities, as in Anderson localization. In summary, we establish an interesting correspondence between a high energy physics model and localization in quantum walks. |
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[Angles-Castillo, Andreu] Univ Valencia, CSIC, Dept Fis Teor, Valencia 46100, Spain, Email: andreu.angles@ific.uv.es |
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Nature Portfolio |
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WOS:000751472600024 |
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IFIC @ pastor @ |
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5107 |
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Kim, J.S.; Lopez-Fogliani, D.E.; Perez, A.D.; Ruiz de Austri, R. |
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The new (g-2)(mu) and right-handed sneutrino dark matter |
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Journal Article |
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2022 |
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Nuclear Physics B |
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Nucl. Phys. B |
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974 |
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In this paper we investigate the (g – 2)(mu) discrepancy in the context of the R-parity conserving next-to minimal supersymmetric Standard Model plus right-handed neutrinos superfields. The model has the ability to reproduce neutrino physics data and includes the interesting possibility to have the right-handed sneutrino as the lightest supersymmetric particle and a viable dark matter candidate. Since right-handed sneutrinos are singlets, no new contributions for delta a(mu) with respect to the MSSM and NMSSM are present. However, the possibility to have the right-handed sneutrino as the lightest supersymmetric particle opens new ways to escape Large Hadron Collider and direct detection constraints. In particular, we find that dark matter masses within 10 less than or similar to m((upsilon) over tildeR) less than or similar to 600 GeV are fully compatible with current experimental constraints. Remarkably, not only spectra with light sleptons are needed, but we obtain solutions with m((mu) over tilde) greater than or similar to 600 GeV in the entire dark matter mass range that could be probed by new (g – 2)(mu) data in the near future. In addition, dark matter direct detection experiments will be able to explore a sizable portion of the allowed parameter space with mvR < 300 GeV, while indirect detection experiments will be able to probe a much smaller fraction within 200 less than or similar to m((nu)over tilde>R) less than or similar to 350 GeV. |
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[Kim, Jong Soo] Univ Witwatersrand, Sch Phys, Johannesburg, South Africa, Email: jongsoo.kim@tu-dortmund.de; |
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WOS:000760320700019 |
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IFIC @ pastor @ |
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5135 |
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Arganda, E.; Marcano, X.; Martin Lozano, V.; Medina, A.D.; Perez, A.D.; Szewc, M.; Szynkman, A. |
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A method for approximating optimal statistical significances with machine-learned likelihoods |
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Journal Article |
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2022 |
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European Physical Journal C |
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Eur. Phys. J. C |
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82 |
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11 |
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993 - 14pp |
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Machine-learning techniques have become fundamental in high-energy physics and, for new physics searches, it is crucial to know their performance in terms of experimental sensitivity, understood as the statistical significance of the signal-plus-background hypothesis over the background-only one. We present here a simple method that combines the power of current machine-learning techniques to face high-dimensional data with the likelihood-based inference tests used in traditional analyses, which allows us to estimate the sensitivity for both discovery and exclusion limits through a single parameter of interest, the signal strength. Based on supervised learning techniques, it can perform well also with high-dimensional data, when traditional techniques cannot. We apply the method to a toy model first, so we can explore its potential, and then to a LHC study of new physics particles in dijet final states. Considering as the optimal statistical significance the one we would obtain if the true generative functions were known, we show that our method provides a better approximation than the usual naive counting experimental results. |
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[Arganda, Ernesto; Marcano, Xabier] Inst Fis Teor UAM CSIC, C Nicolas Cabrera 13-15,Campus Cantoblanco, Madrid 28049, Spain, Email: ernesto.arganda@csic.es; |
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WOS:000879175000003 |
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Gomez-Vargas, G.A.; Lopez-Fogliani, D.E.; Muñoz, C.; Perez, A.D.; Ruiz de Austri, R. |
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Search for sharp and smooth spectral signatures of μnu SSM gravitino dark matter with Fermi- LAT |
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Journal Article |
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2017 |
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Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics |
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J. Cosmol. Astropart. Phys. |
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03 |
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3 |
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047 - 23pp |
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dark matter experiments; dark matter theory; gamma ray experiments |
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The μnu SSM solves the μproblem of supersymmetric models and reproduces neutrino data, simply using couplings with right-handed neutrinos nu's. Given that these couplings break explicitly R parity, the gravitino is a natural candidate for decaying dark matter in the μnu SSM. In this work we carry out a complete analysis of the detection of μnu SSM gravitino dark matter through gamma-ray observations. In addition to the two-body decay producing a sharp line, we include in the analysis the three-body decays producing a smooth spectral signature. We perform first a deep exploration of the low-energy parameter space of the μnu SSM taking into account that neutrino data must be reproduced. Then, we compare the gamma-ray fluxes predicted by the model with Fermi-LAT observations. In particular, with the 95% CL upper limits on the total diffuse extragalactic gamma-ray background using 50 months of data, together with the upper limits on line emission from an updated analysis using 69.9 months of data. For standard values of bino and wino masses, gravitinos with masses larger than about 4 GeV, or lifetimes smaller than about 10(28) s, produce too large fluxes and are excluded as dark matter candidates. However, when limiting scenarios with large and close values of the gaugino masses are considered, the constraints turn out to be less stringent, excluding masses larger than 17 GeV and lifetimes smaller than 4 x 10(25) s. |
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[Gomez-Vargas, German A.; Lopez-Fogliani, Daniel E.; Munoz, Carlos; Perez, Andres D.; Ruiz de Austri, Roberto] Pontificia Univ Catolica Chile, AInstituto Astrofis, Ave Vicu Mackenna 4860, Santiago, Chile, Email: ggomezv@uc.cl; |
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WOS:000405653700036 |
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IFIC @ pastor @ |
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3210 |
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