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Decaying Dark Atom constituents and cosmic positron excess

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics 2015-06-12 v1 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

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 2-2 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 +2+2 metastable particle with a mass of 1 TeV or slightly below that by decaying to e+e+e^+e^+, μ+μ+\mu^+ \mu^+ and τ+τ+\tau^+ \tau^+ 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.

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@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}
}

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20 pages, 4 figures, submitted to Advances in High Energy Physics

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