Protohalo Constraints to the Resonant Annihilation of Dark Matter

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May 2009

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2009aps..nws.b1006c&link_type=abstract

American Physical Society, 11th Annual Meeting of the Northwest Section of APS, May 14-16, 2009, abstract #B1.006

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It has recently been argued that the PAMELA, ATIC and PPB-BETS data showing a anomalous excess of high-energy cosmic ray positrons and electrons could be explained by annihilating dark matter in the galactic halo with an enhanced cross section relative to that in the early universe. We point out that having such a large annihilation cross section could trigger a burst of dark matter annihilation in the first protohalos that form at redshift z˜100-200. We show that bounds from the diffuse gamma ray background and from the reonization of the intergalactic medium give rise to strong constraints on the zero temperature dark matter cross section which disfavor this interpretation of the PAMELA, ATIC and PPB-BETS results.

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