High-energy positrons and gamma radiation from decaying constituents of a two-component dark atom model
Abstract
We study a two-component dark matter candidate inspired by the minimal walking technicolor (WTC) model. Dark matter consists of a dominant strongly interactive massive particle (SIMP)-like dark atom component made of bound states between primordial helium nuclei and a doubly charged technilepton and a small WIMP-like component made of another dark atom bound state between a doubly charged technibaryon and a technilepton. This scenario is consistent with direct search experimental findings because the dominant SIMP component interacts too strongly to reach the depths of current detectors with sufficient energy to recoil and the WIMP-like component is too small to cause significant amount of events. In this context, a metastable technibaryon that decays to e+e+, μ+μ+ and τ+τ+ can, in principle, explain the observed positron excess by AMS-02 and PAMELA, while being consistent with the photon flux observed by FERMI/LAT. We scan the parameters of the model and we find the best possible fit to the latest experimental data. We find that there is a small range of parameter space that this scenario can be realized under certain conditions regarding the cosmic ray propagation and the final state radiation (FSR). This range of parameters fall inside the region where the current run of large hadron collider (LHC) can probe, and therefore it will soon be possible to either verify or exclude conclusively this model of dark matter.
- Publication:
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International Journal of Modern Physics D
- Pub Date:
- September 2015
- DOI:
- 10.1142/S0218271815450042
- arXiv:
- arXiv:1508.02881
- Bibcode:
- 2015IJMPD..2445004B
- Keywords:
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- Elementary particles;
- dark matter;
- cosmic rays;
- cosmic positrons;
- asymmetric dark matter;
- decaying dark matter;
- walking technicolor;
- 02.50.-r;
- 12.60.Nz;
- 14.60.Hi;
- 36.90.+f;
- 95.35.+d;
- 95.85.Ry;
- 98.70.Sa;
- Probability theory stochastic processes and statistics;
- Technicolor models;
- Other charged heavy leptons;
- Other exotic atoms and molecules;
- macromolecules;
- clusters;
- Dark matter;
- Neutrino muon pion and other elementary particles;
- cosmic rays;
- Cosmic rays;
- Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena;
- High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
- E-Print:
- 11 pages, 4 figures, invited contribution to the special issue "Composite dark matter" of International Journal of Modern Physics D. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1411.3657