Cosmic ray positron and electron excess from hidden-fermion dark matter decays

Koichi Hamaguchi, Satoshi Shirai, Tsutomu T. Yanagida

Physics Letters B · 2009 · 72 citations · 38 references

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The anomalies observed in recent cosmic ray experiments seem to strongly constrain the nature of the dark matter. In this Letter, we investigate a possibility of the fermionic dark matter with a minimal extension of the standard model. We found that the dark matter decays caused by the dimension-six operators can naturally explain the anomalies.

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