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The recent AMS-02 measurements of cosmic-ray (CR) deuteron fluxes suggest the presence of primary deuterons in quantities far exceeding predictions from Big Bang nucleosynthesis. This poses a significant challenge to modern astrophysics, as…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-06-25 Xing-Jian Lv , Xiao-Jun Bi , Kun Fang , Peng-Fei Yin , Meng-Jie Zhao

If sub-GeV Dark matter(DM) annihilates to the charged particles such as $e^+ e^-$, $\mu^+ \mu^-$, or $\pi^+ \pi^-$, it generates an additional source of electrons and positrons in the cosmic ray (CR) population within our Milky Way. During…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-12-10 Guansen Wang , Bing-Yu Su , Lei Zu , Lei Feng

The flux of cosmic-ray high-energy positrons has recently been measured by AMS with unprecedented precision. This flux is well above the expectation from secondary positrons made by the observed fluxes of nuclear cosmic rays impinging on…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-09-05 A. De Rújula

Cosmic-ray antiprotons are a remarkable diagnostic tool for the study of astroparticle physics' processes in our Galaxy. While the bulk of measured antiprotons is consistent with a secondary origin, several studies have found evidence for a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-08-02 Jan Heisig , Michael Korsmeier , Martin Wolfgang Winkler

We investigate the implications on the dark matter (DM) signal from the AMS-02 cosmic antiproton flux. Global fits to the data are performed under different propagation and hadronic interaction models. The uncertainties from the injection…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-12-04 Su-Jie Lin , Xiao-Jun Bi , Peng-Fei Yin

Despite significant efforts over the past decade, the origin of the cosmic ray positron excess has still not been unambiguously established. A popular class of candidate sources are pulsars or pulsar wind nebulae but these cannot also…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-12-13 Philipp Mertsch , Andrea Vittino , Subir Sarkar

In the framework of the Inert Doublet Model, a very simple extension of the Standard Model, we study the production and propagation of antimatter in cosmic rays coming from annihilation of a scalar dark matter particle. We consider three…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-05-06 Emmanuel Nezri , Michel H. G. Tytgat , Gilles Vertongen

We show that the recent AMS02 positron fraction measurement is consistent with a secondary origin for positrons, and does not require additional primary sources such as pulsars or dark matter. The measured positron fraction at high energy…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-11-27 Kfir Blum , Boaz Katz , Eli Waxman

The AMS-02 experiment has ushered cosmic-ray physics into precision era. In a companion paper, we designed an improved method to calibrate propagation models on B/C data. Here we provide a robust prediction of the $\bar{p}$ flux, accounting…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-04-13 Mathieu Boudaud , Yoann Génolini , Laurent Derome , Julien Lavalle , David Maurin , Pierre Salati , Pasquale D. Serpico

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

The precise spectra of Cosmic Ray (CR) electrons and positrons have been published by the measurement of AMS-02. It is reasonable to regard the difference between the electrons and positrons spectra ( $\triangle \Phi= \Phi_{e^-}-\Phi_{e^+}$…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-11-17 C. Jin , Y. Q. Guo , H. B. Hu

Tentative observations of cosmic-ray antihelium by the AMS-02 collaboration have re-energized the quest to use antinuclei to search for physics beyond the standard model. However, our transition to a data-driven era requires more accurate…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-04-23 Pedro De La Torre Luque , Martin Wolfgang Winkler , Tim Linden

The flux of cosmic ray antiprotons from neutralino annihilations in the galactic halo is computed for a large sample of models in the Minimal Supersymmetric extension of the Standard Model. We also revisit the problem of estimating the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Lars Bergstrom , Joakim Edsjo , Piero Ullio

We implemented a quasi time-dependent 2D stochastic model of solar modulation describing the transport of cosmic rays (CR) in the heliosphere. Our code can modulate the Local Interstellar Spectrum (LIS) of a generic charged particle (light…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 P. Bobik , M. J. Boschini , C. Consolandi , S. Della Torre , M. Gervasi , D. Grandi , K. Kudela , S. Pensotti , P. G. Rancoita

We propose a dark matter explanation to simultaneously account for the excess of antiproton-to-proton and positron power spectra observed in the AMS-02 experiment while having the right dark matter relic abundance and satisfying the current…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-24 Chuan-Hung Chen , Cheng-Wei Chiang , Takaaki Nomura

The origin of an anomalous excess of high-energy (about 100 GeV and higher) positrons in cosmic rays is one of the rare problems in this field, which is proposed to be solved with dark matter (DM). Attempts to solve this problem are faced…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-10-12 Ramin Barak , Konstantin Belotsky , Ekaterina Shlepkina

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

With the accurate cosmic ray (CR) electron and positron spectra (denoted as $\Phi_{\rm e^{-}}$ and $\Phi_{\rm e^{+}}$, respectively) measured by AMS-02 collaboration, the difference between the electron and positron fluxes (i.e., $\Delta…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-09-30 Xiang Li , Zhao-Qiang Shen , Bo-Qiang Lu , Tie-Kuang Dong , Yi-Zhong Fan , Lei Feng , Si-Ming Liu , Jin Chang

The precise measurements of energy spectra of cosmic ray positrons and/or electrons by recent experiments show clear excesses above 10 GeV. Moreover, a potential sharp spectral feature was suggested by the Dark Matter Particle Explorer…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-04-29 Lei Feng , Zhaofeng Kang , Qiang Yuan , Peng-Fei Yin , Yi-Zhong Fan

Recent measurements of the positron/electron ratio in the cosmic ray (CR) flux exhibits an apparent anomaly, whereby this ratio increases between 10 and 100 GeV. In contrast, this ratio should decrease according to the standard scenario, in…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2009-05-08 Tsvi Piran , Nir J. Shaviv , Ehud Nakar
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