Constraining heavy dark matter with cosmic-ray antiprotons

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Published 3 April 2018 © 2018 IOP Publishing Ltd and Sissa Medialab
, , Citation Alessandro Cuoco et al JCAP04(2018)004 DOI 10.1088/1475-7516/2018/04/004

1475-7516/2018/04/004

Abstract

Cosmic-ray observations provide a powerful probe of dark matter annihilation in the Galaxy. In this paper we derive constraints on heavy dark matter from the recent precise AMS-02 antiproton data. We consider all possible annihilation channels into pairs of standard model particles. Furthermore, we interpret our results in the context of minimal dark matter, including higgsino, wino and quintuplet dark matter. We compare the cosmic-ray antiproton limits to limits from γ-ray observations of dwarf spheroidal galaxies and to limits from γ-ray and γ-line observations towards the Galactic center. While the latter limits are highly dependent on the dark matter density distribution and only exclude a thermal wino for cuspy profiles, the cosmic-ray limits are more robust, strongly disfavoring the thermal wino dark matter scenario even for a conservative estimate of systematic uncertainties.

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10.1088/1475-7516/2018/04/004