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Baryogenesis, dark matter and inflation in the next-to-minimal supersymmetric standard model

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Article number73
<mark>Journal publication date</mark>2014
<mark>Journal</mark>Journal of High Energy Physics
Volume2014
Number of pages23
Publication StatusPublished
Early online date16/01/14
<mark>Original language</mark>English

Abstract

Explaining baryon asymmetry, dark matter and inflation are important elements of a successful theory that extends beyond the Standard Model of particle physics. In this paper we explore these issues within the Next-to-Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model (NMSSM), by studying the conditions for a strongly first order electroweak phase transition, the abundance of the lightest supersymmetric particle (LSP), and inflation driven by a gauge invariant flat direction of MSSM made up of right handed squarks. We present the regions of parameter space which can yield successful predictions for cosmic microwave background (CMB) radiation, the observed relic density for the neutralino LSP, and successful baryogenesis constrained by collider measurements, such as the recent Higgs mass bound, branching ratios of rare, flavour violating decays, and the invisible Z decay width. We also explore where dark matter interactions with xenon nuclei would fall within current bounds of XENON100 and the projected limits for the XENON1T and LUX experiments.

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JHEP is an open-access journal funded by SCOAP3 and licensed under CC BY 4.0 The original publication is available at www.link.springer.com