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Upper limits on DM annihilation cross sections from the first AMS-02 antiproton data

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2015-09-30 v3 High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena

Abstract

The first measurement on the antiproton to proton ratio made by the AMS-02 collaboration agrees with the expection from conventional cosmic-ray secondaries in the kinetic energy range 10100\sim 10-100 GeV, which can be turned into stringent upper limits on the dark matter (DM) annihilation cross sections above 300\sim 300 GeV. Using the GALPROP code, we derive the upper limits in various propagation models and DM profiles. We show that in the "conventional" propagation model, for the qqˉq\bar q, bbˉb\bar b, and WWWW final states, the constraints can be more stringent than that derived from the recent Ferm-LAT gamma-ray data on the dwarf spheroidal satellite galaxies. Making use of the typical minimal, median and maximal models obtained from a previous global fit, we show that the variation of the upper limits is around a factor of five. The possibility of DM contribution to the high energy pˉ/p\bar p/p data is discussed.

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@article{arxiv.1504.04604,
  title  = {Upper limits on DM annihilation cross sections from the first AMS-02 antiproton data},
  author = {Hong-Bo Jin and Yue-Liang Wu and Yu-Feng Zhou},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1504.04604},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

15 pages, 6 figures. More discussions on DM contributions added, to appear in PRD. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1410.0171

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