Gamma Ray Spectrum from Gravitino Dark Matter Decay

Abstract

Gravitinos are very promising candidates for the cold dark matter of the Universe. Interestingly, to achieve a sufficiently long gravitino lifetime, R-parity conservation is not required, thus preventing any dangerous cosmological influence of the next-to-lightest supersymmetric particle. When R-parity is violated, gravitinos decay into photons and other particles with a lifetime much longer than the age of the Universe, producing a diffuse gamma ray flux with a characteristic spectrum that could be measured in future experiments, like GLAST or AMS-02. In this letter we compute the energy spectrum of photons from gravitino decay and discuss its main qualitative features.

4 pages, 1 figure. Minor changes. Version accepted for publication in PRL

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