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Revisiting Multi-Component Dark Matter with New AMS-02 Data

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2015-05-06 v3 High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena

Abstract

We revisit the multi-component leptonically decaying dark matter (DM) scenario to explain the possible electron/positron excesses with the recently updated AMS-02 data. We find that both the single- and two-component DM models can fit the positron fraction and e+/ee^+/e^- respective fluxes, in which the two-component ones provide better fits. However, for the single-component models, the recent AMS-02 data on the positron fraction limit the DM cutoff to be smaller than 1 TeV, which conflicts with the high-energy behavior of the AMS-02 total e++ee^++e^- flux spectrum, while the two-component DM models do not possess such a problem. We also discuss the constraints from the Fermi-LAT measurement of the diffuse γ\gamma-ray spectrum. We show that the two-component DM models are consistent with the current DM lifetime bounds. In contrast, the best-fit DM lifetimes in the single-component models are actually excluded.

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@article{arxiv.1411.4450,
  title  = {Revisiting Multi-Component Dark Matter with New AMS-02 Data},
  author = {Chao-Qiang Geng and Da Huang and Chang Lai},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1411.4450},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

18 pages, 2 figures, revised version accepted for publication in PRD

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