Comment on "Dark Matter Annihilation Can Produce a Detectable Antihelium Flux through $\bar\Lambda_b$ Decays"
Abstract
In a recent Letter, it was suggested that a previously neglected Standard Model process, namely, the production of antihelium-3 nuclei through decays of baryons can lead to a flux of antihelium-3 from dark matter annihilations detectable by AMS-02. We show that an essential condition for its detectability -- the introduction of the " tune" of Pythia -- is excluded by a wealth of measurements of (anti-) baryon and (anti-) meson production at accelerators. Moreover, we argue that Monte Carlo generators like Pythia should not be used to predict branching ratios like , which control the formation rate of antihelium-3. In particular, we show that decays which proceed via diquark formation are overestimated by Pythia using its standard settings, which are further enhanced in the " tune".
Cite
@article{arxiv.2105.00799,
title = {Comment on "Dark Matter Annihilation Can Produce a Detectable Antihelium Flux through $\bar\Lambda_b$ Decays"},
author = {M. Kachelriess and S. Ostapchenko and J. Tjemsland},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2105.00799},
year = {2021}
}
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1.2 pages