Hidden sector explanation of $B$-decay and cosmic ray anomalies
Abstract
There are presently several discrepancies in decays of mesons suggesting new physics coupling to quarks and leptons. We show that a , with couplings to quarks and muons that can explain the -decay anomalies, can also couple to dark matter in a way that is consistent with its relic abundance, direct detection limits, and hints of indirect detection. The latter include possible excess events in antiproton spectra recently observed by the AMS-02 experiment. We present two models, having a heavy (light) with GeV and fermionic dark matter with mass GeV, producing excess antiprotons with energies of GeV. The first model is also compatible with fits for the galactic center GeV gamma-ray excess.
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@article{arxiv.1702.00395,
title = {Hidden sector explanation of $B$-decay and cosmic ray anomalies},
author = {James M. Cline and Jonathan M. Cornell and David London and Ryoutaro Watanabe},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1702.00395},
year = {2017}
}
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14 pages, 6 figures; v2: added references and remarks on CMB/BBN constraints; v3: expanded discussion of UV completion and CMB constraints; published version