Published April 2003 | Version v1
Journal article

Positron fraction from dark matter annihilation in the CMSSM

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We investigate, if the cosmic ray positron fraction, as reported by the HEAT and AMS collaborations, is compatible with the annihilation of neutralinos in the supergravity inspired Constrained Minimal Supersymmetric Model (CMSSM), thus complementing previous investigations, which did not consider constraints from unification, electroweak symmetry breaking and the present Higgs limits at LEP. We consider in a global analysis the complete SUSY parameter space and find that in the acceptable regions that neutralino annihilate dominantly into bb-bar quark pairs. The positrons from bb-bar improve the fit to the experimental positron fraction data considerably compared to a fit with background only

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PII
S0920563203905032;

Publishing Information

Journal Title
Nuclear Physics. B, Proceedings Supplements
Journal Volume
117
Journal Issue
1-3,suppl.1
Journal Page Range
p. 116-118
ISSN
0920-5632
CODEN
NPBSE7

Conference

Title
31. international conference on high energy physics
Dates
25-31 Jul 2002
Place
Amsterdam (Netherlands)

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