Cosmic rays from Leptonic Dark Matter

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2008-10-22

arxiv.org/abs/0810.4110v2

JCAP02(2009)004

Physics

High Energy Physics

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

21 pages, 4 figures, 2 tables, updated plots including PAMELA data

Scientific paper

10.1088/1475-7516/2009/02/004

If dark matter possesses a lepton number, it is natural to expect the dark-matter annihilation and/or decay mainly produces the standard model leptons, while negligible amount of the antiproton is produced. To illustrate such a simple idea, we consider a scenario that a right-handed sneutrino dark matter decays into the standard model particles through tiny R-parity violating interactions. Interestingly enough, charged leptons as well as neutrinos are directly produced, and they can lead to a sharp peak in the predicted positron fraction. Moreover, the decay of the right-handed sneutrino also generates diffuse continuum gamma rays which may account for the excess observed by EGRET, while the primary antiproton flux can be suppressed. Those predictions on the cosmic-ray fluxes of the positrons, gamma rays and antiprotons will be tested by the PAMELA and FGST observatories.

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