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PAMELA/ATIC Anomaly from Exotic Mediated Dark Matter Decay

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2009-05-29 v2 Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

We discuss dark matter decay mediated by exotically charged particles ("exotics") in a supersymmetric model with two dark matter (DM) components: One is the (bino-like) lightest supersymmetric particle (LSP) \chi, and the other is a newly introduced meta-stable neutral singlet NN. NN decays to \chi e^+e^- via a dimension 6 operator induced by a penguin-type one loop diagram with the life time of 10^{26} sec., explaining energetic cosmic e^\pm excess observed recently by PAMELA and ATIC/PPB-BETS. The superheavy masses of exotics (\sim 10^{15-16} GeV) are responsible for the longevity of NN. The superpartner of NN develops the vacuum expectation value (VEV) of order TeV so that the DM NN achieves the desired mass of 2 TeV. By the VEV, the U(1)_R symmetry is broken to the discrete Z_2 symmetry, which is identified with the matter parity in the minimal supersymmetric standard model (MSSM). Since we have the two DM components, even extremely small amount of NN [O(10^{-10}) < (n_N/n_\chi)] could account for the observed positron flux with relatively light exotics' masses [10^{12} GeV < M_{exo.} < 10^{16} GeV].

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@article{arxiv.0902.3578,
  title  = {PAMELA/ATIC Anomaly from Exotic Mediated Dark Matter Decay},
  author = {Kyu Jung Bae and Bumseok Kyae},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0902.3578},
  year   = {2009}
}

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1+7 pages, version to appear in JHEP

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