PAMELA data and leptonically decaying dark matter
- 20 January 2009
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review D
- Vol. 79 (2) , 023512
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevd.79.023512
Abstract
Recently PAMELA released their first results on the positron and antiproton ratios. Stimulated by the new data, we studied the cosmic ray propagation models and calculated the secondary positron and antiproton spectra. The low energy positron ratio can be consistent with data in the convection propagation model. Above PAMELA data shows a clear excess on the positron ratio. However, the secondary antiproton is roughly consistent with the data. The positron excess may be evidence of dark matter annihilation or decay. We compare the positron and antiproton spectra with the data by assuming that dark matter annihilates or decays into different final states. The PAMELA data actually excludes quark pairs being the main final states, and disfavors gauge boson final states. Only in the case of leptonic final states can the positron and antiproton spectra be explained simultaneously. We also compare the decaying and annihilating dark matter scenarios which can account for the PAMELA results and find that the decaying dark matter is preferred. Finally, we consider a decaying neutralino dark matter model in the frame of supersymmetry with R-parity violation. The PAMELA data is well fitted with a neutralino mass of and a lifetime of seconds. We also demonstrate that a neutralino with mass around 2 TeV can fit PAMELA and ATIC data simultaneously.
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