Relic Abundance of Neutralinos in Heterotic String Theory: Weak Coupling vs. Strong Coupling

Abstract

The relic abundance of stable neutralinos is investigated in $E_8\times E_8^{\prime }$ heterotic string theory when supersymmetry is spontaneously broken by hidden-sector gaugino condensates. In the weak coupling regime, very large scalar masses (compared to gaugino masses) are shown to lead to a too large relic abundance of the neutralinos, incompatible with cosmological observations in most of parameter space. The problem does not arise in the strong coupling regime (heterotic M-theory) because there scalar and gaugino masses are generically of the same order of magnitude.

24 pages, latex, no figures

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