Journal
PHYSICAL REVIEW D
Volume 79, Issue 12, Pages -Publisher
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.79.123505
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- NSF [PHY-0449818]
- DOE OJI [DE-FG02-06ER41417]
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We consider the signals of positrons and electrons from exciting dark matter annihilation. Because of the light (m(phi) less than or similar to 1 GeV) force carrier phi into which the dark matter states can annihilate, the electrons and positrons are generally very boosted, yielding a hard spectrum, in addition to the low energy positrons needed for INTEGRAL observations of the Galactic center. We consider the relevance of this scenario for HEAT, PAMELA, and the WMAP haze, focusing on light (m(phi) less than or similar to 2m(pi)) phi bosons, and find that significant signals can be found for all three, although significant signals generally require high dark matter densities. We find that measurements of the positron fraction are generally insensitive to the halo model, but do suffer significant astrophysical uncertainties. We discuss the implications for upcoming PAMELA results.
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