Reexamine the dark matter scenario accounting for the positron excess in a new cosmic ray propagation model

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Hauptverfasser: Lv, Xing-Jian, Bi, Xiao-Jun, Fang, Kun, Yin, Peng-Fei, Zhao, Meng-Jie
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author Lv, Xing-Jian
Bi, Xiao-Jun
Fang, Kun
Yin, Peng-Fei
Zhao, Meng-Jie
author_facet Lv, Xing-Jian
Bi, Xiao-Jun
Fang, Kun
Yin, Peng-Fei
Zhao, Meng-Jie
contents The positron excess in cosmic rays has stimulated a lot of interests in the last decade. The dark matter origin of the extra positrons has attracted great attention. However, the $γ$-ray search set very stringent constraints on the dark matter annihilation/decay rate, which leads to great disfavor of the dark matter scenario. In the work, we incorporate the recent progress in cosmic rays propagation and reexamine the dark matter scenario accounting for the positron excess. Recent observations indicate that cosmic rays propagation in the Milky Way may be not uniform and diffusion in the Galactic disk should be slower than that in the halo. In the spatial-dependent propagation model, the positrons/electrons are more concentrated in the disk and lead to smaller dark matter annihilation/decay rate to account for the positron excess and also a smaller deficit in the background positron flux. Especially for the $μ^+μ^-$ channel the positron spectrum fit the AMS-02 latest data perfectly and the annihilation rate satisfies all the present constraints from $γ$-ray and CMB observations.
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spellingShingle Reexamine the dark matter scenario accounting for the positron excess in a new cosmic ray propagation model
Lv, Xing-Jian
Bi, Xiao-Jun
Fang, Kun
Yin, Peng-Fei
Zhao, Meng-Jie
High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
The positron excess in cosmic rays has stimulated a lot of interests in the last decade. The dark matter origin of the extra positrons has attracted great attention. However, the $γ$-ray search set very stringent constraints on the dark matter annihilation/decay rate, which leads to great disfavor of the dark matter scenario. In the work, we incorporate the recent progress in cosmic rays propagation and reexamine the dark matter scenario accounting for the positron excess. Recent observations indicate that cosmic rays propagation in the Milky Way may be not uniform and diffusion in the Galactic disk should be slower than that in the halo. In the spatial-dependent propagation model, the positrons/electrons are more concentrated in the disk and lead to smaller dark matter annihilation/decay rate to account for the positron excess and also a smaller deficit in the background positron flux. Especially for the $μ^+μ^-$ channel the positron spectrum fit the AMS-02 latest data perfectly and the annihilation rate satisfies all the present constraints from $γ$-ray and CMB observations.
title Reexamine the dark matter scenario accounting for the positron excess in a new cosmic ray propagation model
topic High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.07114