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AMS-02 electrons and positrons: astrophysical interpretation and Dark Matter constraints

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena 2015-08-03 v1 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

Abstract

We present here a quantitative analysis of the recent AMS-02 data with the purpose of investigating the interplay between astrophysical sources and Dark Matter in their interpretation. First, we show that AMS-02 leptonic measurements are in a remarkably good agreement with the hypothesis that all electrons and positrons are the outcome of primary or secondary astrophysical processes. Then, we add Dark Matter to the picture, in order to establish which are the informations on its annihilation cross section (or lifetime) that can be inferred by fitting AMS-02 data within a scenario in which Dark Matter and astrophysical sources jointly contribute to the different leptonic observables. In particular, by performing a Markov Chain Monte Carlo sampling of the parameters space of the theory, we attempt at characterizing the significance of a possible Dark Matter contribution to the observed data and we derive robust upper limits on the Dark Matter annihilation/decay rate.

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@article{arxiv.1507.08680,
  title  = {AMS-02 electrons and positrons: astrophysical interpretation and Dark Matter constraints},
  author = {Mattia Di Mauro and Andrea Vittino},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1507.08680},
  year   = {2015}
}

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9 pages and 4 figure, Proceedings of the 34th International Cosmic Ray Conference (ICRC 2015), The Hague (The Netherlands)