Article ID Journal Published Year Pages File Type
8193825 Physics Letters B 2010 7 Pages PDF
Abstract
We show that the jet structure of DM annihilation or decay products enhances the d¯ production rate by orders of magnitude compared to the previous computations done assuming a spherically symmetric coalescence model. In particular, in the limit of heavy DM, M≫mp, we get a constant rather than 1/M2 suppressed d¯ production rate. Therefore, a detectable d¯ signal is compatible with the lack of an excess in the p¯ PAMELA flux. Most importantly, cosmic d¯ searches become sensitive to the annihilations or decays of heavy DM, suggesting to extend the experimental d¯ searches above the O(1) GeV scale.
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