Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Scientific paper
2010-09-27
Phys.Rev.D82:123519,2010
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Matches Published version. Added discussion of dipole anisotropy and extragalactic constraints. 17 pages, 17 figures, RevTeX
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevD.82.123519
We reconsider Sommerfeld-enhanced annihilation of dark matter (DM) into leptons to explain PAMELA and Fermi electron and positron observations, in light of possible new effects from substructure. There is strong tension between getting a large enough lepton signal while respecting constraints on the fluxes of associated gamma rays. We first show that these constraints become significantly more stringent than in previous studies when the contributions from background e^+ e^- are taken into account, so much so that even cored DM density profiles are ruled out. We then show how DM annihilations within subhalos can get around these constraints. Specifically, if most of the observed lepton excess comes from annihilations in a nearby (within 1 kpc) subhalo along a line of sight toward the galactic center, it is possible to match both the lepton and gamma ray observations. We demonstrate that this can be achieved in a simple class of particle physics models in which the DM annihilates via a hidden leptophilic U(1) vector boson, with explicitly computed Sommerfeld enhancement factors. Gamma ray constraints on the main halo annihilations (and CMB constraints from the era of decoupling) require the annihilating component of the DM to be subdominant, of order 10^-2 of the total DM density.
Cline James M.
Vincent Aaron C.
Xue Weimin
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