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- Bergström, Lars, et al.
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New Limits on Dark Matter Annihilation from Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer Cosmic Ray Positron Data
- 2013
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Ingår i: Physical Review Letters. - 0031-9007 .- 1079-7114. ; 111:17
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer experiment onboard the International Space Station has recently provided cosmic ray electron and positron data with unprecedented precision in the range from 0.5 to 350 GeV. The observed rise in the positron fraction at energies above 10 GeV remains unexplained, with proposed solutions ranging from local pulsars to TeV-scale dark matter. Here, we make use of this high quality data to place stringent limits on dark matter with masses below similar to 300 GeV, annihilating or decaying to leptonic final states, essentially independent of the origin of this rise. We significantly improve on existing constraints, in some cases by up to 2 orders of magnitude.
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- Weniger, Christoph, et al.
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CMB bounds on dark matter annihilation : Nucleon energy losses after recombination
- 2013
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Ingår i: Physical Review D. - 1550-7998 .- 1550-2368. ; 87:12, s. 123008-
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- We consider the propagation and energy losses of protons and antiprotons produced by dark matter annihilation at redshifts 100 < z less than or similar to 2000. In the case of dark matter annihilations into quarks, gluons and weak gauge bosons, protons and antiprotons carry about 20% of the energy injected into e(+/-) and gamma's, but their interactions are normally neglected when deriving cosmic microwave background bounds from altered recombination histories. Here, we follow numerically the energy-loss history of typical protons/antiprotons in the cosmological medium. We show that about half of their energy is channeled into photons and e(+/-), and we present a simple prescription to estimate the corresponding strengthening of the cosmic microwave background bounds on the dark matter annihilation cross section.
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