Astrophysical Constraints on the scale of Left-Right Symmetry in Inverse Seesaw Models

TL;DR

This paper examines astrophysical constraints on the lifetime of the lightest supersymmetric particle in inverse seesaw models, showing that these constraints favor sneutrino dark matter and impose limits on the left-right symmetry breaking scale.

Contribution

It introduces a generalized inverse seesaw model without additional symmetries, analyzing how R-parity breaking affects dark matter stability and constrains the symmetry breaking scale.

Findings

Sneutrino dark matter is more natural than neutralino dark matter under astrophysical constraints.

LSP lifetime constraints imply the left-right symmetry breaking scale must be below 10^4 GeV.

R-parity breaking leads to LSP decay, affecting dark matter stability.

Abstract

We revisit the recently studied supersymmetric gauged inverse seesaw model (An et al., 2012) to incorporate astrophysical constraints on lightest supersymmetric particle (LSP) lifetime such that LSP constitutes the dark matter of the Universe. The authors in An et al. (2012) considered light sneutrino LSP that can play the role of inelastic dark matter (iDM) such that desired iDM mass splitting and tiny Majorana masses of neutrinos can have a common origin. Here we consider a generalized version of this model without any additional discrete symmetry. We point out that due to spontaneous R-parity $(R_p = (-1)^{3(B-L)+2s})$ breaking in such generic supersymmetric gauged inverse seesaw models, LSP can not be perfectly stable but decays to standard model particles after non-renormalizable operators allowed by the gauge symmetry are introduced. We show that strong astrophysical constraints on LSP lifetime makes sneutrino dark matter more natural than standard neutralino dark matter. We also show that long-livedness of sneutrino dark matter constrains the left right symmetry breaking scale $M_R < 10^4 GeV$.