Search for Heavy, Long-Lived Particles that Decay to Photons 寻找重，长寿的粒子衰变的光子.ppt

Paul Geffert Texas APS 2007 * Paul Geffert Texas APS 2007 * Searches for a Dark Matter Candidate in Particle Physics Experiments at the Fermilab Tevatron Paul Geffert, Max Goncharov, Eunsin Lee, Rishi Patel*, David Toback, Peter Wagner, and Slava Krutelyov** for the CDF Collaboration Texas AM University New York University* University of California at Santa Barbara** * Paul Geffert Texas APS 2007 * Outline Dark matter Supersymmetry and a dark matter candidate Photon timing The analysis and results Future Improvements and Prospects Conclusion Analysis Published in Phys. Rev. Lett. 99 121801 (2007) * Paul Geffert Texas APS 2007 * Dark Matter What is dark matter? Does not interact with photons (dark) Has mass and interacts gravitationally Could be an undiscovered particle Large fraction of the energy in the universe “Cold” Dark Matter vs. “Warm” Dark Matter Cold Dark Matter is favored for large scale galaxy formation Warm Dark Matter is favored for subgalactic scale formation Most searches focus on Cold Dark Matter, but we search for Warm Dark Matter because we have a powerful new search technique Warm “Small Mass” ~1 keV Cold “Large Mass” ~100 GeV * * Paul Geffert Texas APS 2007 g G ~ G * Paul Geffert Texas APS 2007 * Supersymmetry Supersymmetry is a model of particle physics that predicts new particles If this theory is correct, one of these new particles could be the dark matter Our warm dark matter candidate is a light gravitino, , the supersymmetric partner of the as yet undiscovered graviton c?i c0i 4 neutralinos 2 charginos For experts, a detailed discussion of GMSB Supersymmetry is Phys. Rev. D 58, 075005 (1998) * Paul Geffert Texas APS 2007 * Supersymmetry and Dark Matter In our model all supersymmetric particles decay into the lightest neutralino, , in the very early universe The is long-lived (nanoseconds) and thus stable on the time scale of Inflation. At later times it decays via The is the lightest super