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Antiproton Limits on Decaying Gravitino Dark Matter

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2014-01-08 v3 Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena

Abstract

We derive 95% CL lower limits on the lifetime of decaying dark matter in the channels ZνZ\nu, WW\ell and hνh\nu using measurements of the cosmic-ray antiproton flux by the PAMELA experiment. Performing a scan over the allowed range of cosmic-ray propagation parameters we find lifetime limits in the range of 8×10288 \times 10^{28}s to 5×10255 \times 10^{25}s for dark matter masses from roughly 100 GeV to 10 TeV. We apply these limits to the well-motivated case of gravitino dark matter in scenarios with bilinear violation of R-parity and find a similar range of lifetime limits for the same range of gravitino masses. Converting the lifetime limits to constraints on the size of the R-parity violating coupling we find upper limits in the range of 10810^{-8} to 8×10138 \times 10^{-13}.

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@article{arxiv.1305.7183,
  title  = {Antiproton Limits on Decaying Gravitino Dark Matter},
  author = {Timur Delahaye and Michael Grefe},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1305.7183},
  year   = {2014}
}

Comments

46 pages, 23 pdf figures; addition of two plots, extended discussion, no change of results or conclusions, matches published version