From PAMELA to CDMS and back |
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Authors: | Qing-Hong Cao Ian Low Gabe Shaughnessy |
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Institution: | 1. Enrico Fermi Institute, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637, United States;2. High Energy Physics Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL 60439, United States;3. Department of Physics and Astronomy, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 60208, United States |
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Abstract: | We study implications of the recent results from the CDMS Collaboration on astrophysical probes of dark matter. By crossing symmetry an elastic scattering cross section with the nucleon implies annihilation of dark matter into hadrons inside the halo, resulting in an anti-proton flux that could be constrained by data from the PAMELA Collaboration if one includes a large boost factor necessary to explain the PAMELA excess in the positron fraction. As an illustration, we present a model-independent analysis for a fermionic dark matter and study the upper bound on the boost factor using the PAMELA anti-proton flux. |
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Keywords: | Dark matter |
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