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Halo-Shape and Relic-Density Exclusions of Sommerfeld-Enhanced Dark Matter Explanations of Cosmic Ray Excesses

Authors :
Manoj Kaplinghat
Hai-Bo Yu
Jonathan L. Feng
Source :
Physical Review Letters. 104
Publication Year :
2010
Publisher :
American Physical Society (APS), 2010.

Abstract

Dark matter with Sommerfeld-enhanced annihilation has been proposed to explain observed cosmic ray positron excesses in the 10 GeV to TeV energy range. We show that the required enhancement implies thermal relic densities that are too small to be all of dark matter. We also show that the dark matter is sufficiently self-interacting that observations of elliptical galactic dark matter halos exclude large Sommerfeld enhancement for light force carriers. Resonant Sommerfeld enhancement does not modify these conclusions, and the astrophysical boosts required to resolve these discrepancies are disfavored, especially when significant self-interactions suppress halo substructure.<br />4 pages, discussion and references added, published version

Details

ISSN :
10797114 and 00319007
Volume :
104
Database :
OpenAIRE
Journal :
Physical Review Letters
Accession number :
edsair.doi.dedup.....6778548c701a3ad62e0442d828cbe58c
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.104.151301