New decay modes of gravitino dark matter

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We consider the three-body decays of gravitino dark matter in supersymmetric scenarios with bilinear R-parity violation.

• In particular, gravitino decays into lepton+W^* (lepton f\bar f') and \nu+Z^* (\nu f\bar f) are examined for gravitino masses below Mw.
• After computing the gravitino decay rates into these three-body final states and studying their dependence on supersymmetric parameters, we find that these new decay modes are often more important than the two-body decay, into a photon and a neutrino, considered in previous works.
• Consequently, the gravitino lifetime and its branching ratios are substantially modified, with important implications for the indirect detection of gravitino dark matter.