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The AMS-02 collaboration has recently presented measurements of excellent quality of the cosmic electron and positron fluxes as well as the positron fraction. We use the measurements of the positron flux to derive, for the first time,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-04-02 Alejandro Ibarra , Anna S. Lamperstorfer , Joseph Silk

We discuss challenges to a dark matter annihilation interpretation of the excess positron fraction in the cosmic rays observed by the PAMELA, Fermi-LAT and AMS-02 collaborations. The spectra of positrons from annihilations into the leptonic…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-12-31 Vassilis C. Spanos

AMS-02 provided the unprecedented statistics in the measurement of the positron fraction from cosmic rays. That may offer a unique opportunity to distinguish the positron spectrum coming from various dark matter (DM) annihilation channels,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-02-17 Yu-Heng Chen , Kingman Cheung , Po-Yan Tseng

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

The AMS-02 collaboration has just released its first result of the cosmic positron fraction $e^+/(e^-+e^+)$ with high precision up to $\sim 350$ GeV. The AMS-02 result shows the same trend with the previous PAMELA result, which requires…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-07-15 Qiang Yuan , Xiao-Jun Bi , Guo-Ming Chen , Yi-Qing Guo , Su-Jie Lin , Xinmin Zhang

Recently the AMS-02 experiment reported an excess of cosmic ray antiprotons over the expected astrophysical background. We interpret the excess as a signal from annihilating or decaying dark matter and find that the observed spectrum is…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-04-23 Koichi Hamaguchi , Takeo Moroi , Kazunori Nakayama

There is convincing observational evidence for an increasing cosmic-ray positron-to-electron ratio at energies larger than $\sim 10$~GeV, at odds with expectations from secondary positron production. The most recent AMS-02 data exhibit an…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-03-21 Stefano Profumo , Farinaldo Queiroz , Clarissa Siqueira

The AMS experiment onboard the International Space Station has recently provided cosmic ray electron and positron data with unprecedented precision in the range from 0.5 to 350 GeV. The observed rise in the positron fraction at energies…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-10-29 Lars Bergstrom , Torsten Bringmann , Ilias Cholis , Dan Hooper , Christoph Weniger

Antimatter cosmic-rays are used to probe new phenomena in physics, including dark matter annihilation. We use the cosmic-ray positron fraction spectrum by the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer, to search for such an annihilation signal in the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-01-18 Iason Krommydas , Ilias Cholis

We present here a quantitative analysis of the recent AMS-02 data with the purpose of investigating the interplay between astrophysical sources and Dark Matter in their interpretation. First, we show that AMS-02 leptonic measurements are in…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-08-03 Mattia Di Mauro , Andrea Vittino

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

We use recently released data on the positron-to-electron ratio in cosmic rays from the AMS-02 experiment to constrain dark matter annihilation in the Milky Way. Due to the yet unexplained positron excess, limits are generally weaker than…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-10-31 Joachim Kopp

The AMS-02 experiment has recently released data which confirms a rise in the cosmic-ray positron fraction as a function of energy up to approximately 350 GeV. Over the past decade, attempts to interpret this positron excess in terms of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-11-13 Keith R. Dienes , Jason Kumar , Brooks Thomas

In this work we perform a comprehensive statistical analysis of the AMS-02 electron, positron fluxes and the antiproton-to-proton ratio in the context of a simplified dark matter model. We include known, standard astrophysical sources and a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-05-25 Csaba Balázs , Tong Li

Several studies have pointed out an excess in the AMS-02 antiproton spectrum at rigidities of 10-20 GV. Its spectral properties were found to be consistent with a dark-matter particle of mass 50-100 GeV which annihilates hadronically at…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-10-07 Jan Heisig , Michael Korsmeier , Martin Wolfgang Winkler

In light of the first measurement of the positron fraction by the AMS-02 experiment, we perform a detailed global analysis on the interpretation of the latest data of PAMELA, Fermi-LAT, and AMS-02 in terms of dark matter (DM) annihilation…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-15 Hong-Bo Jin , Yue-Liang Wu , Yu-Feng Zhou

With the measurement of positron flux published recently by AMS-02 collaboration, we show how the leptophilic dark matter fits the observation. We obtain the percentages of different products of dark matter annihilation that can best…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-03-16 Qing-Hong Cao , Chuan-Ren Chen , Ti Gong

The particle origin of dark matter (DM) is still one of the main puzzles in modern physics. One of the most promising search strategy to detect DM at laboratories is through the indirect search of cosmic particles that are produced from DM…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-05-04 Haoxiang Zhan

We evaluate dark matter (DM) limits from cosmic-ray antiproton observations using the recent precise AMS-02 measurements. We properly take into account cosmic-ray propagation uncertainties fitting at the same time DM and propagation…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-05-15 Alessandro Cuoco , Michael Krämer , Michael Korsmeier

The precise AMS-02 data provide definite information for the e+/e- ratio in 100 - 350 GeV region. Assuming that the recent gamma ray line observed by Fermi-LAT experiment is product of dark matter in space and taken as input. We make a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-10-16 Shiyuan Li , Yonggang Luo
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