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Indirect Evidence for Neutralinos as Dark Matter

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2011-09-13 v1

Abstract

From the relic density measurement by WMAP the WIMP annihilation cross section can be determined in a model independent way. If the WIMPS are postulated to be the neutralinos of Supersymmetry, then only a limited region of the supersymmetric parameter space matches this annihilation cross section. It is shown that the resulting positrons, antiprotons and gamma rays from the neutralino annihilation (mainly into b-bbar quark pairs) provide the correct shape and order of magnitude for the missing gamma and hard positron fluxes in the Galactic Models and are consistent with antiproton production.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0312037,
  title  = {Indirect Evidence for Neutralinos as Dark Matter},
  author = {W. de Boer and M. Herold and C. Sander and V. Zhukov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0312037},
  year   = {2011}
}

Comments

3 pages, 2 figures, prepared for Proc. of EPS 2003 Conf. in Aachen, to be published in EPJ