Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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8188946 | Physics Letters B | 2013 | 5 Pages |
Abstract
Recently, a tentative 130 GeV γ-ray line signal was identified by quite a few groups. If correct it would constitute a “smoking gun” for dark matter annihilations. Interestingly, the spectra of the cosmic ray electrons detected by PAMELA and Fermi-LAT both show tiny wiggle-like structure at â¼100 GeV, which might indicate a weak signal of the annihilation of â¼130 GeV dark matter particles into electrons/positrons with a velocity-weighted cross section ãÏvãÏÏâe+eââ¼4Ã10â26 cm3sâ1. The prospect of identifying such a potential weak dark-matter-annihilation electron and/or positron component by AMS-02, a mission to measure the high energy cosmic ray spectra with unprecedented accuracy, is investigated.
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Authors
Lei Feng, Qiang Yuan, Xiang Li, Yi-Zhong Fan,