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Direct/indirect detection signatures of nonthermally produced dark matter

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2008-11-26 v2 Astrophysics

Abstract

We study direct and indirect detection possibilities of neutralino dark matter produced non-thermally by e.g. the decay of long-lived particles, as is easily implemented in the case of anomaly or mirage mediation models. In this scenario, large self-annihilation cross sections are required to account for the present dark matter abundance, and it leads to significant enhancement of the gamma-ray signature from the Galactic Center and the positron flux from the dark matter annihilation. It is found that GLAST and PAMELA will find the signal or give tight constraints on such nonthermal production scenarios of neutralino dark matter.

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@article{arxiv.0807.1634,
  title  = {Direct/indirect detection signatures of nonthermally produced dark matter},
  author = {Minoru Nagai and Kazunori Nakayama},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0807.1634},
  year   = {2008}
}

Comments

14 pages, 12 figures; typos corrected, reference added; to appear in PRD