Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Scientific paper
2010-09-26
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
21 pages, 10 figures
Scientific paper
In a wino LSP scenario the annihilation cross section of winos gravitationally bound in galaxies can be boosted by a Sommerfeld enhancement factor which arises due to the ladder of exchanged W bosons between the initial states. The boost factor obtained can be in the range S ~ 10^4 if the mass is close to the resonance value of M ~ 4 TeV. In this paper we show that if one takes into account the Sommerfeld enhancement in the relic abundance calculation then the correct relic density is obtained for 4 TeV wino mass due to the enhanced annihilation after their kinetic decoupling. At the same time the Sommerfeld enhancement in the W^+ W^- annihilation channel is sufficient to explain the positron flux seen in PAMELA data without significantly exceeding the observed antiproton signal. We also show that (e^- + e^+) and gamma ray signals are broadly compatible with the Fermi-LAT observations. In conclusion we show that a 4 TeV wino DM can explain the positron and antiproton fluxes observed by PAMELA and at the same time give a thermal relic abundance of CDM consistent with WMAP observations.
Mohanty Subhendra
Rao Soumya
Roy David P.
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