Gravitational Dark Matter Decay and the ATIC/PPB-BETS Excess
Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
2009-01-23 v1 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Abstract
The hidden scalar field, which couples to the visible sector only through Planck-suppressed interactions, is a candidate for dark matter owing to its long lifetime. Decay of such a scalar field offers observational tests of this scenario. We show that decay of the hidden scalar field can explain the observed excess of high-energy positrons/electrons observed by ATIC/PPB-BETS, for a suitable choice of the mass and the vacuum expectation value of the field. We also show that the same choice of the parameters gives the observed dark matter abundance. Such a remarkable coincidence suggests that the Planck-suppressed interactions may be responsible for the observed excess in the cosmic-ray positrons/electrons.
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@article{arxiv.0901.1915,
title = {Gravitational Dark Matter Decay and the ATIC/PPB-BETS Excess},
author = {Fuminobu Takahashi and Eiichiro Komatsu},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0901.1915},
year = {2009}
}
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11 pages, 1 figure