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Breit-Wigner Enhancement of Dark Matter Annihilation

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2015-05-13 v1

Abstract

We point out that annihilation of dark matter in the galactic halo can be enhanced relative to that in the early universe due to a Breit-Wigner tail, if the dark matter annihilates through a pole just below the threshold. This provides a new explanation to the "boost factor" which is suggested by the recent data of the PAMELA, ATIC and PPB-BETS cosmic-ray experiments.

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@article{arxiv.0812.0072,
  title  = {Breit-Wigner Enhancement of Dark Matter Annihilation},
  author = {Masahiro Ibe and Hitoshi Murayama and T. T. Yanagida},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0812.0072},
  year   = {2015}
}

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4 pages, 4 figures