Cosmic Ray Excesses from Multi-component Dark Matter Decays
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 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 flux, which are also consistent with the measured diffuse -ray flux by Fermi-LAT.
Cite
@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"