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Decaying into the hidden sector

Journal

JOURNAL OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS
Volume -, Issue 2, Pages -

Publisher

SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP02(2010)024

Keywords

Beyond Standard Model; Cosmology of Theories beyond the SM

Funding

  1. NSF graduate fellowship
  2. DOE [DE-FG02-90ER40542]

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The existence of light hidden sectors is an exciting possibility that may be tested in the near future. If DM is allowed to decay into such a hidden sector through GUT suppressed operators, it can accommodate the recent cosmic ray observations without over-producing antiprotons or interfering with the attractive features of the thermal WIMP. Models of this kind are simple to construct, generic and evade all astrophysical bounds. We provide tools for constructing such models and present several distinct examples. The light hidden spectrum and DM couplings can be probed in the near future, by measuring astrophysical photon and neutrino fluxes. These indirect signatures are complimentary to the direct production signals, such as lepton jets, predicted by these models.

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