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Dark matter transporting mechanism explaining positron excesses

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JOURNAL OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS
卷 -, 期 4, 页码 -

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SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP04(2018)093

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Beyond Standard Model; Cosmology of Theories beyond the SM

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  1. Korean Research Foundation (KRF) through the CERN-Korea Fellowship program
  2. National Research Foundation of Korea [NRF-2016R1C1B2015225, NRF-2017R1D1A1B03032076]
  3. POSCO Science Fellowship of POSCO TJ Park Foundation

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We propose a novel mechanism to explain the positron excesses, which are observed by satellite-based telescopes including PAMELA and AMS-02, in dark matter (DM) scenarios. The novelty behind the proposal is that it makes direct use of DM around the Galactic Center where DM populates most densely, allowing us to avoid tensions from cosmological and astrophysical measurements. The key ingredients of this mechanism include DM annihilation into unstable states with a very long laboratory-frame life time and their retarded decay near the Earth to electron-positron pair(s) possibly with other (in)visible particles. We argue that this sort of explanation is not in conflict with relevant constraints from big bang nucleosynthesis and cosmic microwave background. Regarding the resultant positron spectrum, we provide a generalized source term in the associated diffusion equation, which can be readily applicable to any type of two-stage DM scenarios wherein production of Standard Model particles occurs at completely different places from those of DM annihilation. We then conduct a data analysis with the recent AMS-02 data to validate our proposal.

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