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Response to Comment on "Dark Matter Annihilation Can Produce a Detectable Antihelium Flux through $\bar{\Lambda}_b$ Decays"

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2021-06-02 v1

Abstract

In a recent paper we showed that the decay of intermediate Λˉb\bar{\Lambda}_b baryons can dramatically enhance the antihelium flux from dark matter annihilation. Our antihelium predictions were derived using several implementations of the Pythia and Herwig event generators which were calibrated to existing data on antideuteron and antihelium formation. Kachelriess et al. have argued for a smaller antihelium flux compared to our most optimistic Monte Carlo model. However, we show that the arguments by Kachelriess et al. are either incorrect or irrelevant for antihelium formation. Thus, the results of our original paper remain unchanged.

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@article{arxiv.2106.00053,
  title  = {Response to Comment on "Dark Matter Annihilation Can Produce a Detectable Antihelium Flux through $\bar{\Lambda}_b$ Decays"},
  author = {Martin Wolfgang Winkler and Tim Linden},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2106.00053},
  year   = {2021}
}

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