Probing gravitino dark matter with PAMELA and Fermi
Creators
- 1. Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY), Hamburg (Germany)
- 2. Technische Univ. Muenchen, Garching (Germany). Physik-Dept.
- 3. Kogakuin Univ., Tokyo (Japan)
Description
We analyse the cosmic-ray signatures of decaying gravitino dark matter in a model-independent way based on an operator analysis. Thermal leptogenesis and universal boundary conditions at the GUT scale restrict the gravitino mass to be below 600 GeV. Electron and positron fluxes from gravitino decays, together with the standard GALPROP background, cannot explain both, the PAMELA positron fraction and the electron + positron flux recently measured by Fermi LAT. For gravitino dark matter, the observed fluxes require astrophysical sources. The measured antiproton flux allows for a sizable contribution of decaying gravitinos to the gamma-ray spectrum, in particular a line at an energy below 300 GeV. Future measurements of the gamma-ray flux will provide important constraints on possible signatures of decaying gravitino dark matter at the LHC. (orig.)
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Available from INIS in electronic form
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Publishing Information
- Imprint Pagination
- 21 p.
- ISSN
- 0418-9833
- Report number
- DESY--09-055
INIS
- Country of Publication
- Germany
- Country of Input or Organization
- Germany
- INIS RN
- 40073469
- Subject category
- S72: PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS;
- Descriptors DEI
- ANTIPROTONS; BRANCHING RATIO; COSMIC ELECTRONS; COSMIC PHOTONS; COSMIC POSITRONS; COSMIC PROTONS; COSMIC RAY FLUX; GAMMA SPECTRA; GEV RANGE 100-1000; LEPTONIC DECAY; NONLUMINOUS MATTER; PARTICLE WIDTHS; RADIATIVE DECAY; REST MASS; SPARTICLES; SUPERGRAVITY
- Descriptors DEC
- ANTIBARYONS; ANTILEPTONS; ANTIMATTER; ANTINUCLEI; ANTINUCLEONS; ANTIPARTICLES; BARYONS; BASIC INTERACTIONS; BOSONS; COSMIC RADIATION; DECAY; DIMENSIONLESS NUMBERS; ELECTRONS; ELEMENTARY PARTICLES; ENERGY RANGE; FERMIONS; FIELD THEORIES; GEV RANGE; HADRONS; INTERACTIONS; IONIZING RADIATIONS; LEPTONS; MASS; MASSLESS PARTICLES; MATTER; NUCLEI; NUCLEONS; PARTICLE DECAY; PARTICLE PROPERTIES; PHOTONS; POSITRONS; POSTULATED PARTICLES; PROTONS; RADIATION FLUX; RADIATIONS; SECONDARY COSMIC RADIATION; SPECTRA; UNIFIED-FIELD THEORIES; WEAK INTERACTIONS; WEAK PARTICLE DECAY
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- Secondary number(s)
- TUM-HEP--720-09