Dark Matter in Gauge Mediated Supersymmetry Breaking using Metastable Vacua

Motoi Endo, Fuminobu Takahashi

Published 2007-10-08, updated 2007-10-11Version 2

We point out that, in a class of gauge mediation models using metastable supersymmetry breaking vacua, the minimum of the supersymmetry breaking field in the early universe is dynamically deviated from the one in the low energy. The deviation induces coherent oscillations of the supersymmetry breaking field, which decays into the gravitinos. For certain parameters, it can produce a right amount of the gravitinos to account for the observed dark matter.