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Imprint of Multi-component Dark Matter on AMS-02

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2014-04-02 v3 High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena

Abstract

The multi-component decaying dark matter (DM) scenario is investigated to explain the possible excesses in the positron fraction by PAMELA and recently confirmed by AMS-02, and in the total e++ee^+ +e^- flux observed by Fermi-LAT. By performing the χ2\chi^2 fits, we find that two DM components are already enough to give a reasonable fit of both AMS-02 and Fermi-LAT data. The best-fitted results show that the heavier DM component with its mass 1.5 TeV dominantly decays through the μ\mu-channel, while the lighter one of 100 GeV mainly through the τ\tau-channel. As a byproduct, the fine structure around 100 GeV observed by AMS-02 and Fermi-LAT can be naturally explained by the dropping due to the lighter DM component. With the obtained model parameters by the fitting, we calculate the diffuse γ\gamma-ray emission spectrum in this two-component DM scenario, and find that it is consistent with the data measured by Fermi-LAT. We also construct a microscopic particle DM model to naturally realize the two-component DM scenario, and point out an interesting neutrino signal which is possible to be measured in the near future by IceCube.

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@article{arxiv.1312.0366,
  title  = {Imprint of Multi-component Dark Matter on AMS-02},
  author = {Chao-Qiang Geng and Da Huang and Lu-Hsing Tsai},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1312.0366},
  year   = {2014}
}

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23 pages, 5 figures, revised version accepted for publication in Phys. Rev. D