TY - JOUR
T1 - AMS-02 antiprotons from annihilating or decaying dark matter
AU - Hamaguchi, Koichi
AU - Moroi, Takeo
AU - Nakayama, Kazunori
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© 2015 The Authors.
PY - 2015/7/1
Y1 - 2015/7/1
N2 - Recently the AMS-02 experiment reported an excess of cosmic ray antiprotons over the expected astrophysical background. We interpret the excess as a signal from annihilating or decaying dark matter and find that the observed spectrum is well fitted by adding contributions from the annihilation or decay of dark matter with mass of O(TeV) or larger. Interestingly, Wino dark matter with mass of around 3 TeV, whose thermal relic abundance is consistent with present dark matter abundance, can explain the antiproton excess. We also discuss the implications for the decaying gravitino dark matter with R-parity violation.
AB - Recently the AMS-02 experiment reported an excess of cosmic ray antiprotons over the expected astrophysical background. We interpret the excess as a signal from annihilating or decaying dark matter and find that the observed spectrum is well fitted by adding contributions from the annihilation or decay of dark matter with mass of O(TeV) or larger. Interestingly, Wino dark matter with mass of around 3 TeV, whose thermal relic abundance is consistent with present dark matter abundance, can explain the antiproton excess. We also discuss the implications for the decaying gravitino dark matter with R-parity violation.
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U2 - 10.1016/j.physletb.2015.06.041
DO - 10.1016/j.physletb.2015.06.041
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84934891222
SN - 0370-2693
VL - 747
SP - 523
EP - 528
JO - Physics Letters, Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics
JF - Physics Letters, Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics
ER -