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Cosmic Ray Antihelium from a Strongly Coupled Dark Sector

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2023-07-12 v1 High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena

Abstract

Standard Model extensions with a strongly coupled dark sector can induce high-multiplicity states of soft quarks. Such final states trigger extremely efficient antinucleus formation. We show that dark matter annihilation or decay into a strongly coupled sector can dramatically enhance the cosmic-ray antinuclei flux -- by six orders of magnitude in the case of 4He{^4\overline{\text{He}}}. In this work, we argue that the tentative 3He{^3\overline{\text{He}}} and 4He{^4\overline{\text{He}}} events reported by the AMS-02 collaboration could be the first sign of a strongly coupled dark sector observed in nature.

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@article{arxiv.2211.00025,
  title  = {Cosmic Ray Antihelium from a Strongly Coupled Dark Sector},
  author = {Martin Wolfgang Winkler and Pedro De La Torre Luque and Tim Linden},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2211.00025},
  year   = {2023}
}

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9 pages, 2 figures