MiXDM: Cosmic Ray Signals from Multiple States of Dark Matter

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2009-11-27

arxiv.org/abs/0911.4954v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena

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Recent data from cosmic ray experiments such as PAMELA, Fermi, ATIC and PPB-BETS all suggest the need for a new primary source of electrons and positrons at high (>~100 GeV) energies. Many proposals have been put forth to explain these data, usually relying on a single particle to annihilate or decay to produce e+e-. In this paper, we consider models with multiple species of WIMPs with significantly different masses. We show if such dark matter candidates chi_i annihilate into light bosons, they naturally produce equal annihilation rates, even as the available numbers of pairs for annihilation n_chi_i^2 differ by orders of magnitude. We argue that a consequence of these models can be to add additional signal naturally at lower (~100 GeV) versus higher (~ TeV) energies, changing the expected spectrum and even adding bumps at lower energies, which may alleviate some of the tension in the required annihilation rates between PAMELA and Fermi. These spectral changes may yield observable consequences in the microwave Haze signal observed at the upcoming Planck satellite. Such a model can connect to other observable signals such as DAMA and INTEGRAL by having the lighter (heavier) state be a pseudo-Dirac fermion with splitting 100 keV (1 MeV). We show that variations in the halo velocity dispersion can alleviate constraints from final state radiation in the galactic center and galactic ridge. If the lighter WIMP has a large self-interaction cross section, the light-WIMP halo might collapse, dramatically altering expectations for direct and indirect detection signatures.

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