Antiproton Limits on Decaying Gravitino Dark Matter
Abstract
We derive 95% CL lower limits on the lifetime of decaying dark matter in the channels , and 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 s to 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 to .
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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