Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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1852725 | Physics Letters B | 2015 | 6 Pages |
Abstract
Recently the AMS-02 experiment reported an excess of cosmic ray antiprotons over the expected astrophysical background. We interpret the excess as a signal from annihilating or decaying dark matter and find that the observed spectrum is well fitted by adding contributions from the annihilation or decay of dark matter with mass of O(TeV)O(TeV) or larger. Interestingly, Wino dark matter with mass of around 3 TeV, whose thermal relic abundance is consistent with present dark matter abundance, can explain the antiproton excess. We also discuss the implications for the decaying gravitino dark matter with R-parity violation.
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Authors
Koichi Hamaguchi, Takeo Moroi, Kazunori Nakayama,