Probing supersymmetry breaking scale with atomic clocks

Abstract

The supersymmetry (SUSY) breaking mechanism inevitably predicts the existence of the sgoldstinos, which can play the role of wave-like dark matter. Due to the ubiquitous coupling to the electromagnetic fields, the light scalar sgoldstino dark matter can lead to the variance of the fine-structure constant. With the precise atomic clock data, we find the SUSY breaking scale F can be probed up to the GUT scale in the sgoldstino mass range of 10−22 eV <mϕ< 4×10−7 eV.