Study of radio waves signals of dark matter by Gravitating systems
Diffusion, acceleration and propagation of cosmic rays in turbulent astrophysical ...
Detection of positrons with the AMS-02 detector and phenomenological implications
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| Author(s): |
Queiroz, Farinaldo S.
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Siqueira, Clarissa
Total Authors: 2
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| Document type: | Journal article |
| Source: | PHYSICAL REVIEW D; v. 101, n. 7, p. 9-pg., 2020-04-06. |
| Abstract | |
We have witnessed in the past decade the observation of a puzzling cosmic-ray excess at energies larger than 10 GeV. The AMS-02 data published this year have new ingredients such as the bump around 300 GeV followed by a drop at 800 GeV, as well as smaller error bars. Adopting the background used by the AMS-02 Collaboration in their analysis, one can conclude that previous explanations to the new AMS-02 such as one component annihilating and decaying dark matter as well as pulsars seem to fail at reproducing the data. Hem, we show that in the right-handed neutrino portal might reside the answer. We discuss a decaying two-component dark matter scenario where the two-body decay products are right-handed neutrinos that have their decay pattern governed by the type-I seesaw mechanism. This setup provides a very good fit to the data; for example, a conservative approach including just statistical uncertainties leads to chi(2)/DOF similar to 2.3 for m(DM1)= 2150 GeV with tau(1) = 3.78 x 10(26) s and m(DM2) = 300 with tau(2 )= 5.0 x 10(27)s for M-N = 10 GeV, and, in an optimistic case, including systematic uncertainties, we find chi(2)/DOF similar to 1.12, for M-N = 10 GeV, with m(DM1 )= 2200 GeV with tau(1) = 3.8 x 10(26) s and m(DM2) = 323 GeV with tau(2) = 1.68 x 10(27) s. (AU) | |
| FAPESP's process: | 16/01343-7 - ICTP South American Institute for Fundamental Research: a regional center for theoretical physics |
| Grantee: | Nathan Jacob Berkovits |
| Support Opportunities: | Special Projects |