Gravitino Freeze-In
Clifford Cheung, Gilly Elor, and Lawrence Hall

TL;DR
This paper investigates a novel gravitino dark matter production mechanism via freeze-in from superpartner decays, which can dominate over thermal scattering and is independent of reheating temperature, enabling collider-based reconstruction.
Contribution
It introduces the freeze-in production of gravitino dark matter from superpartner decays, highlighting its dominance and independence from reheating temperature, with implications for collider measurements.
Findings
Freeze-in can dominate gravitino production over thermal scattering.
Relic abundance from freeze-in is independent of reheating temperature.
Collider measurements can reconstruct the freeze-in origin of gravitinos.
Abstract
We explore an alternative mechanism for the production of gravitino dark matter whereby relic gravitinos originate from the decays of superpartners which are still in thermal equilibrium, i.e. via freeze-in. Contributions to the gravitino abundance from freeze-in can easily dominate over those from thermal scattering over a broad range of parameter space, e.g. when the scalar superpartners are heavy. Because the relic abundance from freeze-in is independent of the reheating temperature after inflation, collider measurements may be used to unambiguously reconstruct the freeze-in origin of gravitinos. In particular, if gravitino freeze-in indeed accounts for the present day dark matter abundance, then the lifetime of the next-to-lightest superpartner is uniquely fixed by the superpartner spectrum.
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