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Cosmic Ray Positron and Electron Excess from Hidden-Fermion Dark Matter Decays

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2010-04-30 v3

Abstract

The anomalies observed in recent cosmic ray experiments seem to strongly constrain the nature of the dark matter. In this letter, we investigate a possibility of the fermionic dark matter with a minimal extension of the standard model. We found that the dark matter decays caused by the dimension six operators can naturally explain the anomalies.

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@article{arxiv.0812.2374,
  title  = {Cosmic Ray Positron and Electron Excess from Hidden-Fermion Dark Matter Decays},
  author = {Koichi Hamaguchi and Satoshi Shirai and T. T. Yanagida},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0812.2374},
  year   = {2010}
}

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10 pages, 8 figures, accepted by PLB