Published April 2009 | Version v1
Journal article

ATIC and PAMELA results on cosmic e± excesses and neutrino masses

  • 1. Key Laboratory of Particle Astrophysics, Institute of High Energy Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 10049 (China)
  • 2. Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Strada Costiera 11, 34014 Trieste (Italy)
  • 3. Institute of Theoretical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100080 (China)
  • 4. Theoretical Physics Division, Institute of High Energy Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 10049 (China)

Description

Recently the ATIC and PAMELA collaborations released their results which show the abundant e± excess in cosmic rays well above the background, but not for the p-bar . Their data if interpreted as the dark matter particles' annihilation imply that the new physics with the dark matter is closely related to the lepton sector. In this paper we study the possible connection of the new physics responsible for the cosmic e± excesses to the neutrino mass generation. We consider a class of models and do the detailed numerical calculations. We find that some models can account for the ATIC and PAMELA e± and p-bar data and at the same time generate the small neutrino masses.

Availability note (English)

Available from http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1126-6708/2009/04/103

Additional details

Publishing Information

Journal Title
Journal of High Energy Physics
Journal Volume
4
Journal Issue
2009
Journal Page Range
p. 103
ISSN
1126-6708