Kaluza-Klein Dark Matter and the Positron Excess

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2004-06-02

arxiv.org/abs/hep-ph/0406026v1

Phys.Rev. D70 (2004) 115004

Physics

High Energy Physics

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

5 pages, 3 figures, REVTeX 4

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevD.70.115004

The excess of cosmic positrons observed by the HEAT experiment may be the result of Kaluza-Klein dark matter annihilating in the galactic halo. Kaluza-Klein dark matter annihilates dominantly into charged leptons that yield a large number and hard spectrum of positrons per annihilation. Given a Kaluza-Klein dark matter particle with a mass in the range of 300-400 GeV, no exceptional substructure or clumping is needed in the local distribution of dark matter to generate a positron flux that explains the HEAT observations. This is in contrast to supersymmetric dark matter that requires unnaturally large amounts of dark substructure to produce the observed positron excess. Future astrophysical and collider tests are outlined that will confirm or rule out this explanation of the HEAT data.

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