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Pseudo-Familon Dark Matter

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2015-06-03 v1 Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics

Abstract

Motivated by a model of pseudo-Majoron dark matter, we show how the breaking of a global symmetry that acts nontrivially in lepton generation space can lead to a viable pseudo-familon dark matter candidate. Unlike the pseudo-Majoron, the pseudo-familon in our model decays primarily to charged leptons and can account for the excess observed in the cosmic ray electron and positron spectra.

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@article{arxiv.1201.1205,
  title  = {Pseudo-Familon Dark Matter},
  author = {Christopher D. Carone},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1201.1205},
  year   = {2015}
}

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