Cosmic rays from leptonic dark matter

被引:89
作者
Chen, Chuan-Ren [1 ]
Takahashi, Fuminobu [1 ]
机构
[1] Univ Tokyo, Inst Phys & Math Universe, Chiba 2778568, Japan
来源
JOURNAL OF COSMOLOGY AND ASTROPARTICLE PHYSICS | 2009年 / 02期
关键词
dark matter; cosmic rays; GRAVITINO-OVERPRODUCTION; POSITRON FRACTION; INFLATON DECAY; CONSTRAINTS; PROPAGATION; PAMELA;
D O I
10.1088/1475-7516/2009/02/004
中图分类号
P1 [天文学];
学科分类号
0704 ;
摘要
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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