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The multi-component decaying dark matter (DM) scenario is investigated to explain the possible excesses in the positron fraction by PAMELA and recently confirmed by AMS-02, and in the total $e^+ +e^-$ flux observed by Fermi-LAT. By…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-04-02 Chao-Qiang Geng , Da Huang , Lu-Hsing Tsai

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

By combining the recent data from AMS-02 with those from Fermi-LAT, we show the emergence of a charge asymmetry in the electron and positron cosmic-ray excesses, slightly favoring the electron component. Astrophysical and dark matter…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-07-03 Isabella Masina , Francesco Sannino

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

In the light of the latest measurements on the total $e^+ + e^-$ flux by CALET and DAMPE experiments, we revisit the multicomponent leptonically decaying dark matter (DM) explanations to the cosmic-ray electron/positron excesses observed…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-09-22 Chao-Qiang Geng , Da Huang , Lu Yin

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

The flux of electron and positron cosmic rays measured by the space-based experiments PAMELA, AMS-02, CALET, DAMPE and Fermi-LAT shows an unexpected behaviour at high energies, in comparison with expectations from standard astrophysical…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-11-19 Johannes Buchner , Edson Carquin , Marco A. Díaz , Germán A. Gómez-Vargas , Boris Panes , Nicolás Viaux

We use multi-component decaying dark matter (DM) scenario to explain the possible cosmic ray excesses in the positron fraction recently confirmed by AMS-02 and the total $e^+ +e^-$ flux observed by Fermi-LAT. In the two-component DM models,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-12-01 Chao-Qiang Geng , Da Huang , Lu-Hsing Tsai

Cosmic-ray positrons have long been considered a powerful probe of dark matter annihilation. In particular, myriad studies of the unexpected rise in the positron fraction have debated its dark matter or pulsar origins. In this paper, we…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-01-07 Isabelle John , Tim Linden

Recent positron flux fraction measurements in cosmic-rays (CR) made by the AMS-02 satellite confirm and extends the evidence on the existence of a new (yet unknown) source of high energy positrons. To explain this excess, we use the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-11-24 Edson Carquin , Marco A. Diaz , German A. Gomez-Vargas , Boris Panes , Nicolas Viaux

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

The long standing anomaly in the positron flux as measured by the PAMELA and AMS-02 experiments could potentially be explained by dark matter (DM) annihilations. This scenario typically requires a large "boost factor" to be consistent with…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-12-12 Jatan Buch , Pranjal Ralegankar , Vikram Rentala

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

Dark matter search in space has been carried out for many years. Measurements of cosmic ray photons, charged antiparticles and neutrinos are useful tools for dark matter indirect search. The antiparticle energy spectra of cosmic rays have…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-05-16 Jie Feng , Hong-Hao Zhang

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

The rise of the cosmic ray positron fraction with energy, as first observed with high confidence by PAMELA, implies that a large flux of high energy positrons has been recently (or is being currently) injected into the local volume of the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-08-13 Ilias Cholis , Dan Hooper

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

We revisit the decaying wino dark matter scenario in the light of the updated positron fraction, electron and positron fluxes in cosmic ray recently reported by the AMS-02 collaboration. We show the AMS-02 results favor the mass of the wino…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-05-09 Masahiro Ibe , Shigeki Matsumoto , Satoshi Shirai , Tsutomu T. Yanagida

The positron fraction in cosmic rays was found to be a steadily increasing in function of energy, above $\sim$ 10 GeV. This behaviour contradicts standard astrophysical mechanisms, in which positrons are secondary particles, produced in the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-02-25 M. Boudaud , S. Aupetit , S. Caroff , A. Putze , G. Belanger , Y. Genolini , C. Goy , V. Poireau , V. Poulin , S. Rosier , P. Salati , L. Tao , M. Vecchi

The recently reported positron fraction up to $\sim 350$ GeV by AMS-02 seems to have tension with the total electron/positron spectra detected by Fermi and HESS, for either pulsar or dark matter annihilation/decay scenario as the primary…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-05-15 Qiang Yuan , Xiao-Jun Bi