Revisiting neutrino and sneutrino dark matter in natural SUSY scenarios

Abstract

We study natural supersymmetric scenarios with light right-handed neutrino superfields, and consider the possibility of having either a neutrino or a sneutrino as a dark matter candidate. For the former, we evaluate the possibility of having SUSY corrections on the ${\ensuremath{\nu}}_{4}\ensuremath{\rightarrow}{\ensuremath{\nu}}_{\ensuremath{\ell}}\ensuremath{\gamma}$ decay rate, such that the NuStar bounds are relaxed. We find that corrections are too small. For sneutrino dark matter, we consider thermal and nonthermal production, taking into account freeze-out, freeze-in, and super-weakly interacting massive particles mechanisms. For the nonthermal case, we find that the ${\stackrel{\texttildelow{}}{\ensuremath{\nu}}}_{R}$ can reproduce the observed relic density by adjusting the R-sneutrino mass and Yukawa couplings. For the thermal case, we find the need to extend the model in order to enhance sneutrino annihilations, which we exemplify in a model with an extended gauge symmetry.