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hep-ph/0610272 UMN–TH–2518/06 FTPI–MINN–06/31 September 2006 Searching for Dark Matter in Unification Models: A Hint from Indirect Sensitivities 6 0 towards Future Signals in 0 2 Direct Detection and B-decays1 t c O Keith A. Olive 0 2 William I Fine Theoretical Physics Institute, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA 1 v 2 Abstract. A comparison is made between accelerator and direct detection constraints in con- 7 strained versions of the minimal supersymmetric standard model. Models considered are based on 2 mSUGRA, where scalar and gaugino masses are unified at the GUT scale. In addition, the mSUGRA 0 relation between the (unified) A and B parameters is assumed, as is the relation between m0 and 1 the gravitino mass. Also considered are models where the latter two conditions are dropped (the 6 CMSSM), and a less constrained version where the Higgs soft masses are not unified at the GUT 0 scale (the NUHM). / h Keywords: Dark Matter; Supersymmetry p- PACS: 11.30Pb, 13.25.Hw, 95.35.+d, 98.80.-k p e h UNIFICATION MODELS : v i X As constraints from accelerator searches and direct detection experiments improve, and r in anticipation of the