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The data on cosmic antiprotons have reached an outstanding precision on energies spanning from GeV to hundreds of TeV, thanks to the space-based AMS-02 experiment. The balloon-borne GAPS experiment, which just completed its first Antarctic…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-05-12 Lorenzo Stefanuto , Mattia Di Mauro , Fiorenza Donato , Nicolao Fornengo , Jordan Koechler , David Maurin

The AMS-02 collaboration has just released the cosmic antiproton to proton ratio $\bar{p}/p$ with a high precision up to $\sim 450$ GeV. In this work, we calculate the secondary antiprotons generated by cosmic ray interactions with the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-04-28 Su-Jie Lin , Xiao-Jun Bi , Peng-Fei Yin , Zhao-Huan Yu

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 2015-05-20 Mathieu Boudaud , Marco Cirelli , Gaëlle Giesen , Pierre Salati

Recent cosmic-ray (CR) studies have claimed the possibility of an excess on the antiproton flux over the predicted models at around $10$ GeV, which can be the signature of dark matter annihilating into hadronic final states that…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-11-17 Pedro De La Torre Luque

Observations of cosmic rays are a sensitive probe of dark matter annihilation in our Galaxy. In this article we present an analysis of the AMS-02 antiproton data, reducing cosmic-ray propagation uncertainties by fitting at the same time…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-04-23 Alessandro Cuoco , Jan Heisig , Michael Korsmeier , Michael Krämer

A possible hint of dark matter annihilation has been found in Cuoco, Korsmeier and Kr\"amer (2017) from an analysis of recent cosmic-ray antiproton data from AMS-02 and taking into account cosmic-ray propagation uncertainties by fitting at…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-11-07 Alessandro Cuoco , Jan Heisig , Michael Korsmeier , Michael Krämer

The cosmic antideuteron is a promising probe for the dark matter annihilation signature. In order to determine the DM signature, the background astrophysical antideuteron flux should be carefully studied. In this work we provide a new…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-01-04 Su-Jie Lin , Xiao-Jun Bi , Peng-Fei Yin

Cosmic-ray (CR) antihelium is an important probe for the indirect search of dark matter (DM) annihilation in the Galaxy. However, due to stringent constraints from the measurements of CR antiprotons and $\gamma$-rays, the flux of CR…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-03-28 Yu-Chen Ding , Nan Li , Yu-Feng Zhou

Numerous simulations indicate that a large number of subhalos should be hosted by the Milky Way. The potential existence of a nearby subhalo could have important implications for our understanding of dark matter (DM) annihilation. In this…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-09-20 Yi Zhao , Xiao-Jun Bi , Su-Jie Lin , Peng-Fei Yin

The cosmic ray(CR) positrons and antiprotons are often regarded as the collision products of CR nucleons with the interstellar medium. However this conclusion is challenged by recent experimental data. In this work, we choose the latest…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-07-03 Hong-Bo Jin , Yue-Liang Wu , Yu-Feng Zhou

The AMS-02 collaboration has recently reported the antiproton to proton ratio with improved accuracy. In view of uncertainties of the production and the propagation of the cosmic rays, the observed ratio is still consistent with the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-24 Masahiro Ibe , Shigeki Matsumoto , Satoshi Shirai , Tsutomu T. Yanagida

Cosmic-ray antiprotons are a powerful tool for astroparticle physics. While the bulk of measured antiprotons is consistent with a secondary origin, the precise data of the AMS-02 experiment provides us with encouraging prospects to search…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-03-02 Jan Heisig

An excess of $\sim$10-20 GeV cosmic-ray antiprotons has been identified in the spectrum reported by the AMS-02 Collaboration. The systematic uncertainties associated with this signal, however, have made it difficult to interpret these…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-20 Ilias Cholis , Tim Linden , Dan Hooper

The search for an excess of antideuterons in the cosmic rays flux has been proposed as a very promising channel for dark matter indirect detection, especially for WIMPs with a low or intermediate mass. With the development of the AMS…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-17 A. Vittino , N. Fornengo , L. Maccione

The annihilation of dark matter (DM) in the Galaxy could produce specific imprints on the spectra of antimatter species in Galactic cosmic rays, which could be detected by upcoming experiments such as PAMELA and AMS02. Recent studies show…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 P. Brun , G. Bertone , J. Lavalle , P. Salati , R. Taillet

Energetic antiprotons in cosmic rays can serve as an important indirect signature of dark matter. Conventionally, the antiproton flux from dark matter decays or annihilations is calculated by solving the transport equation with a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2011-06-24 Maxim Perelstein , Bibhushan Shakya

It is shown that the antiproton spectrum reported by the AMS02 collaboration can be accounted for by dark matter (DM) decay if the residence time in the Galactic halo is of order 90 Myr. The DM lifetime assumed, $ 5 \cdot 10^{27}$ s for DM…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-07-27 David Eichler , Raz Idan , Eyal Gavish , Tanguy Pierog

Cosmic-ray (CR) antihelium is an important observable for dark matter (DM) indirect searches due to extremely low secondary backgrounds towards low energies. In a given DM model, the predicted CR antihelium flux is expected to be strongly…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-06-12 Yu-Chen Ding , Nan Li , Chun-Cheng Wei , Yue-Liang Wu , Yu-Feng Zhou

Measurements of the cosmic ray antiproton spectrum can be used to search for contributions from annihilating dark matter and to constrain the dark matter annihilation cross section. Depending on the assumptions made regarding cosmic ray…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-03-19 Dan Hooper , Tim Linden , Philipp Mertsch

Dark matter is an important component of the Standard model of cosmology but its nature is still unknown. One of the most common explanations is that dark matter consists of Weakly Interacting Massive Particles (WIMPs), supposed to be cold…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2019-06-26 A. Guskov , R. El-Kholy