Published February 15, 2002 | Version v1
Journal article

Supersymmetry and the Cosmic Ray Positron Excess

Description

We explore several supersymmetric alternatives to explain predictions for the cosmic ray positron excess. Light sneutrino or neutralino LSP's, and a fine-tuned model designed to provide a delta-function input, can give adequate statistical descriptions of the reported HEAT data if non-thermal production of the relic cold dark matter density dominates and/or if 'boost factors'; (that could originate in uncertainties from propagation or local density fluctuations) to increase the size of the signal are included. All the descriptions can be tested at the Tevatron or LHC, and some in other WIMP detecting experiments

Availability note (English)

Available from OSTI as DE00965506; PURL: https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/965506-KQ7Ucp/

Additional details

Publishing Information

Journal Title
Physics Letters. Section B
Journal Issue
issue Feb 2002
Journal Page Range
vp.
ISSN
0370-2693

Optional Information

Contract/Grant/Project number
AC02-05CH11231
Notes
doi 10.1016/S0370-2693(02)01839-7. Journal Publication Date: 06/06/2002
Funding organization
Physics Division (United States)
Secondary number(s)
LBNL--48801