Accidental Supersymmetric Dark Matter and Baryogenesis

TL;DR

This paper explores a natural extension of the Standard Model called accidental supersymmetry, which can simultaneously explain dark matter and baryogenesis, predicting specific particle spectra testable by current and future experiments.

Contribution

It introduces the accidental supersymmetry framework, demonstrating its ability to account for dark matter relic density and baryon asymmetry with testable predictions for collider and dark matter experiments.

Findings

Regions of parameter space produce correct dark matter relic density.

Successful baryogenesis consistent with observed baryon asymmetry.

Predicted particle spectrum accessible to collider and direct detection experiments.

Abstract

We show that "accidental" supersymmetry is a beyond-the-Standard Model framework that naturally accommodates a thermal relic dark matter candidate and successful electroweak baryogenesis, including the needed strongly first-order character of the electroweak phase transition. We study the phenomenology of this setup from the standpoint of both dark matter and baryogenesis. For energies around the electroweak phase transition temperature, the low-energy effective theory is similar to the MSSM with light super-partners of the third-generation quarks and of the Higgs and gauge bosons. We calculate the dark matter relic abundance and the baryon asymmetry across the accidental supersymmetry parameter space, including resonant and non-resonant CP-violating sources. We find that there are regions of parameter space producing both the observed value of the baryon asymmetry and a dark matter candidate with the correct relic density and conforming to present-day constraints from dark matter searches. This scenario makes sharp predictions for the particle spectrum, predicting a lightest neutralino mass between 200 and 500 GeV, with all charginos and neutralinos within less than a factor 2 of the lightest neutralino mass and the heavy Higgs sector within 20-25% of that mass, making it an interesting target for collider searches. In addition, we demonstrate that successful accidental supersymmetric dark matter and baryogenesis will be conclusively tested with improvements smaller than one order of magnitude to the current performance of electron electric dipole moment searches and of direct dark matter searches, as well as with IceCube plus Deep Core neutrino telescope data.