期刊
JOURNAL OF COSMOLOGY AND ASTROPARTICLE PHYSICS
卷 -, 期 12, 页码 -出版社
IOP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.1088/1475-7516/2009/12/007
关键词
dark matter theory; cosmic ray experiments; dark matter experiments; cosmic ray theory
资金
- NASA [NAG5-12972]
- NSF [PHY-0449818]
- DOE [DE-FG02-06ER41417]
Recently published results from the PAMELA experiment have shown conclusive evidence for an excess of positrons at high(similar to 10 - 100 GeV) energies,confirming earlier indications from HEAT and AMS-01. Such a signal is generally expected from dark matter annihilations. However,the hard positron spectrum and large amplitude are difficult to achieve in most conventional WIMP models. The absence of any associated excess in anti-protons is highly constraining on models with hadronic annihilation modes. We revisit an earlier proposal, where in the dark matter annihilates into a new light (less than or similar to GeV) boson phi, which is kinematically constrained to go to hard leptonic states,without anti-protonsor pi(0)'s. We find this provides a very good fit to the data. The light boson naturally provides a mechanism by which large cross sections can be achieved through the Sommerfeld enhancement, as was recently proposed. Depending on the mass of the WIMP, the rise may continue above 300 GeV, the extent of PAMELA's ability to discriminate between electrons and positrons.
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