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Cosmic Ray Excesses from Multi-component Dark Matter Decays

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2014-12-01 v1

Abstract

We use multi-component decaying dark matter (DM) scenario to explain the possible cosmic ray excesses in the positron fraction recently confirmed by AMS-02 and the total e++ee^+ +e^- flux observed by Fermi-LAT. In the two-component DM models, we find an interesting variation of the flavor structure along with the cutoff of the heavy DM. For the three-component DM case, we focus on a particular parameter range in which the best fits prefer to open only 2 DM decay channels with a third DM contributing nothing to the electron and positron spectra. We show that all models give the reasonable fits to both the AMS-02 positron fraction and the Fermi-LAT total e++ee^++e^- flux, which are also consistent with the measured diffuse γ\gamma-ray flux by Fermi-LAT.

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@article{arxiv.1405.7759,
  title  = {Cosmic Ray Excesses from Multi-component Dark Matter Decays},
  author = {Chao-Qiang Geng and Da Huang and Lu-Hsing Tsai},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1405.7759},
  year   = {2014}
}

Comments

10 pages, 1 figures, submitted to the special issue of Mod. Phys. Lett.A "Indirect Dark Matter Searches"

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