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Cosmic rays from Leptonic Dark Matter

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2009-03-04 v2 Astrophysics

Abstract

If dark matter possesses a lepton number, it is natural to expect the dark-matter annihilation and/or decay mainly produces the standard model leptons, while negligible amount of the antiproton is produced. To illustrate such a simple idea, we consider a scenario that a right-handed sneutrino dark matter decays into the standard model particles through tiny R-parity violating interactions. Interestingly enough, charged leptons as well as neutrinos are directly produced, and they can lead to a sharp peak in the predicted positron fraction. Moreover, the decay of the right-handed sneutrino also generates diffuse continuum gamma rays which may account for the excess observed by EGRET, while the primary antiproton flux can be suppressed. Those predictions on the cosmic-ray fluxes of the positrons, gamma rays and antiprotons will be tested by the PAMELA and FGST observatories.

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@article{arxiv.0810.4110,
  title  = {Cosmic rays from Leptonic Dark Matter},
  author = {Chuan-Ren Chen and Fuminobu Takahashi},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0810.4110},
  year   = {2009}
}

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21 pages, 4 figures, 2 tables, updated plots including PAMELA data

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