Gaugino Mediation Scenarios for Muon $g-2$ and Dark Matter

Abstract

We explore the possibility that the muon $g-2$ anomaly and the nature of dark matter can be simultaneously explained within the framework of gaugino mediation, focusing on bino-like dark matter where the observed abundance is obtained via co-annihilations. The minimal model with non-universal gaugino masses is excluded by stau vacuum instability, although this constraint can be somewhat relaxed via the addition of a universal soft scalar mass (or $B-L$ gaugino mediation). A more promising alternative is gaugino+Higgs mediation, which significantly raises the soft masses of the third generation sfermions leading to a split spectrum. In this framework, the muon $g-2$ can be easily explained and the dark matter abundance obtained through either bino-wino or bino-slepton co-annihilations.

17 pages, 5 figures; v2: version published in JHEP