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Halo-Shape and Relic-Density Exclusions of Sommerfeld-Enhanced Dark Matter Explanations of Cosmic Ray Excesses
- Source :
- Physical Review Letters. 104
- Publication Year :
- 2010
- Publisher :
- American Physical Society (APS), 2010.
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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
- Subjects :
- Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
Scalar field dark matter
FOS: Physical sciences
General Physics and Astronomy
Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics
Astrophysics
01 natural sciences
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
0103 physical sciences
Warm dark matter
010306 general physics
Light dark matter
Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics
High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
Physics
010308 nuclear & particles physics
Hot dark matter
Self-interacting dark matter
Astronomy
Dark matter halo
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Mixed dark matter
Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
Dark fluid
Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Subjects
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