Consistent scenarios for cosmic-ray excesses from Sommerfeld-enhanced dark matter annihilation

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作者
Finkbeiner, Douglas P. [1 ,2 ]
Goodenough, Lisa [3 ]
Slatyer, Tracy R. [1 ,4 ]
Vogelsberger, Mark [1 ,2 ]
Weiner, Neal [3 ,4 ]
机构
[1] Harvard Smithsonian Ctr Astrophys, Cambridge, MA 02138 USA
[2] Harvard Univ, Dept Phys, Cambridge, MA 02138 USA
[3] NYU, Dept Phys, Ctr Cosmol & Particle Phys, New York, NY 10003 USA
[4] Inst Adv Study, Sch Nat Sci, Princeton, NJ 08540 USA
基金
美国国家科学基金会;
关键词
dark matter theory; dark matter experiments; POSITRON FRACTION; ELECTRONS; SPECTRA; CONTRACTION; SIGNATURES; ENERGIES; DENSITY; HELIUM; SEARCH; HALOS;
D O I
10.1088/1475-7516/2011/05/002
中图分类号
P1 [天文学];
学科分类号
0704 ;
摘要
Anomalies in direct and indirect detection have motivated models of dark matter consisting of a multiplet of nearly-degenerate states, coupled by a new GeV-scale interaction. We perform a careful analysis of the thermal freezeout of dark matter annihilation in such a scenario. We compute the range of "boost factors" arising from Sommerfeld enhancement in the local halo for models which produce the correct relic density, and show the effect of including constraints on the saturated enhancement, from the cosmic microwave background (CMB). We find that boost factors from Sommerfeld enhancement of up to similar to 800 are possible in the local halo. When the CMB bounds on the saturated enhancement are applied, the maximal boost factor is reduced to similar to 400 for 1-2 TeV dark matter and sub-GeV force carriers, but remains large enough to explain the observed Fermi and PAMELA electronic signals. We describe regions in the DM mass-boost factor plane where the cosmic may data is well fit for a, range of final states, and show that Sommerfeld enhancement alone is enough to provide the large annihilation cross sections required to fit the data, although for light mediator masses (m(phi) less than or similar to 200 MeV) there is tension with the CMB constraints in the absence of astrophysical boost factors from substructure. Additionally, we consider the circumstances under which WIMPonium formation is relevant and find for heavy WIMPs (greater than or similar to 2 TeV) and soft-spectrum annihilation channels it can be an important consideration; we find regions with m(chi) greater than or similar to 2.8 TeV that are consistent with the CMB bounds with O(600-700) present-day boost factors.
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