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We derive 95% CL lower limits on the lifetime of decaying dark matter in the channels $Z\nu$, $W\ell$ and $h\nu$ using measurements of the cosmic-ray antiproton flux by the PAMELA experiment. Performing a scan over the allowed range of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-01-08 Timur Delahaye , Michael Grefe

In this letter, we suggest that a nearby clump of 600-1000 GeV neutralinos may be responsible for the excesses recently observed in the cosmic ray positron and electron spectra by the PAMELA and ATIC experiments. Although neutralino dark…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-07-30 Dan Hooper , Albert Stebbins , Kathryn M. Zurek

Antiprotons are regarded as a powerful probe for Dark Matter (DM) indirect detection and indeed current data from \PAMELA\ have been shown to lead to stringent constraints. However, in order to exploit their constraining/discovery power…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-10-28 Mathieu Boudaud

We study cosmic-ray anomaly observed by PAMELA based on E_6 inspired extra U(1) model with S_4 x Z_2 flavor symmetry. In our model, the lightest flavon has very long lifetime of O(10^{18)) second which is longer than the age of the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-03-19 Yasuhiro Daikoku , Hiroshi Okada , Takashi Toma

We analyze the recently released Fermi-LAT data on the sum of electrons and positrons. Compared to a conventional, pre-Fermi, background model, a surprising excess in the several hundred GeV range is found and here we analyze it in terms of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2009-09-02 Lars Bergstrom , Joakim Edsjo , Gabrijela Zaharijas

We study a scenario that a U(1) hidden gaugino constitutes the dark matter in the Universe and decays into a lepton and slepton pair through a mixing with a U(1)B-L gaugino. We find that the dark-matter decay can account for the recent…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-12-09 Satoshi Shirai , Fuminobu Takahashi , T. T. Yanagida

We present a supersymmetric model with two dark matter (DM) components explaining the galactic positron excess observed by PAMELA/HEAT and ATIC/PPB-BETS: One is the conventional (bino-like) lightest supersymmetric particle (LSP) \chi, and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-08-01 Bumseok Kyae

The data recently obtained by PAMELA and ATIC show the presence of the peak in the cosmic positron spectrum at energies above 100 GeV. In this paper it has been shown that the peak can arise due to processes of the interaction of cosmic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2011-02-01 A. B. Flanchik

We discuss the recently observed `excesses' in cosmic ray electron and positron fluxes which have been widely interpreted as signals of dark matter. By considering the production and acceleration of secondary electrons and positrons in…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-08-23 Philipp Mertsch , Subir Sarkar

Motivated by the recent results from the PAMELA and ATIC, we study the cosmic-ray electron and positron produced by the decay of gravitino dark matter. We calculate the cosmic-ray electron and positron fluxes and discuss implications to the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-11-15 Koji Ishiwata , Shigeki Matsumoto , Takeo Moroi

We present a scenario where dark matter is in the form of dark atoms that can accomodate the experimentally observed excess of positrons in PAMELA and AMS-02 while being compatible with the constraints imposed on the gamma-ray flux from…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 Konstantin Belotsky , Maxim Khlopov , Chris Kouvaris , Maxim Laletin

Reliable data from the very recent high-precision measurements on the antiproton fluxes and the antiproton-to-proton ratios by the PAMELA Collaboration at relatively much higher energies are now available. The results with regard to…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2010-01-14 Goutam Sau , P. Guptaroy , A. Bhattacharya , S. Bhattacharyya

Positron and electron cosmic rays provide a complementary way to study the galactic environment. The actual cosmic rays experiments, for instance PAMELA and HEAT, have presented very exciting results in this field. The observed positron…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-02-04 Roberto A. Lineros

The positron anomaly recently reported by the cosmic-ray measurements can be explained by the decaying dark matter scenario, where it decays mainly into leptons with the lifetime of O(10^26) second. When the dark matter is a fermionic…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-01-04 Naoyuki Haba , Yuji Kajiyama , Shigeki Matsumoto , Hiroshi Okada , Koichi Yoshioka

Using the latest AMS-02 cosmic ray antiproton flux data, we search for potential dark matter annihilation signal. The background parameters about the propagation, source injection, and solar modulation are not assumed {\it a priori}, but…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-05-17 Ming-Yang Cui , Qiang Yuan , Yue-Lin Sming Tsai , Yi-Zhong Fan

It has recently been argued that the PAMELA, ATIC and PPB-BETS data showing an anomalous excess of high-energy cosmic ray positrons and electrons might be explained by dark matter annihilating in the Galactic halo with a cross section…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-05 Francis-Yan Cyr-Racine , Stefano Profumo , Kris Sigurdson

We propose a scenario where Dark Matter (DM) annihilates into an intermediate state which travels a distance $\lambda \equiv v/\Gamma$ on the order of galactic scales and then decays to Standard Model (SM) particles. The long lifetime…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2009-07-22 Ira Z. Rothstein , Thomas Schwetz , Jure Zupan

The radiative seesaw model with an inert doublet has been shown to be attractive from a viewpoint of both neutrino masses and cold dark matter. However, if we apply this model to the explanation of the positron excess in the cosmic ray…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-11-20 Daijiro Suematsu , Takashi Toma , Tetsuro Yoshida

Motivated by a two-bump (or 1-peak plus 1-hump) structure in the ATIC data, we perform a statistical analysis fitting the PAMELA and ATIC data to a dark matter model, in which the dark matter particle can undergo both annihilation and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-05-13 Kingman Cheung , Po-Yan Tseng , Tzu-Chiang Yuan

We perform a detailed quantitative analysis of the recent AMS-02 electron and positron data. We investigate the interplay between the emission from primary astrophysical sources, namely Supernova Remnants and Pulsar Wind Nebulae, and the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-07-14 Mattia Di Mauro , Fiorenza Donato , Nicolao Fornengo , Andrea Vittino