HOW SUPERCRITICAL STRING COSMOLOGY AFFECTS LHC

Abstract

In supercritical string cosmology (SSC), a time-dependent dilaton leads to a smoothly evolving dark energy and modifies the regions of the mSUGRA parameter space where the observed value of the dark matter relic density may be obtained. In particular, the dilaton dilutes the supersymmetric dark matter density (of neutralinos) by a factor [Formula: see text] and consequently relaxes the allowed parameter mSUGRA parameter space. The final states expected at the LHC in this scenario, consist of Z bosons, Higgs bosons, and/or high energy taus. From this, it is possible to characterize these final states and determine the model parameters. Using these parameters, we determine the dark matter content and the neutralino–proton cross section. All these techniques can also be applied to determine model parameters in SSC models with different SUSY breaking scenarios.