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Decaying Dark Matter Baryons in a Composite Messenger Model

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2010-01-15 v2

Abstract

A baryonic bound state with a mass of O(100) TeV, which is composed of strongly interacting messenger quarks in the low scale gauge mediation, can naturally be the cold dark matter. Interestingly, we find that such a baryonic dark matter is generically metastable, and the decay of this dark matter can naturally explain the anomalous positron flux recently observed by the PAMELA collaboration.

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@article{arxiv.0811.0737,
  title  = {Decaying Dark Matter Baryons in a Composite Messenger Model},
  author = {Koichi Hamaguchi and Eita Nakamura and Satoshi Shirai and T. T. Yanagida},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0811.0737},
  year   = {2010}
}

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10 pages, 2 figures. v2: minor changes, note added

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