Decaying Dark Atom constituents and cosmic positron excess
Abstract
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 Fermi/LAT. This scenario assumes that the dominant component of dark matter is in the form of a bound state between a helium nucleus and a particle and a small component is in the form of a WIMP-like dark atom compatible with direct searches in underground detectors. One of the constituents of this WIMP-like state is a metastable particle with a mass of 1 TeV or slightly below that by decaying to , and produces the observed positron excess. These decays can naturally take place via GUT interactions. If it exists, such a metastable particle can be found in the next run of LHC. The model predicts also the ratio of leptons over baryons in the Universe to be close to -3.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1403.1212,
title = {Decaying Dark Atom constituents and cosmic positron excess},
author = {Konstantin Belotsky and Maxim Khlopov and Chris Kouvaris and Maxim Laletin},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1403.1212},
year = {2015}
}
Comments
20 pages, 4 figures, submitted to Advances in High Energy Physics