We perform a detailed quantitative analysis of the recent AMS-02 electron and positron data. We investigate the interplay between the emission from primary astrophysical sources, namely Supernova Remnants and Pulsar Wind Nebulae, and the contribution from a dark matter annihilation or decay signal. Our aim is to assess the information that can be derived on dark matter properties when both dark matter and primary astrophysical sources are assumed to jointly contribute to the leptonic observables measured by the AMS-02 experiment. We investigate both the possibility to set robust constraints on the dark matter annihilation/decay rate and the possibility to look for dark matter signals within realistic models that take into account the full complexity of the astrophysical background. Our results show that AMS-02 data enable to probe efficiently vast regions of the dark matter parameter space and, in some cases, to set constraints on the dark matter annihilation/decay rate that are comparable or even stronger with respect to the ones that can be derived from other indirect detection channels. For dark matter annihilation into muons, the bounds leave room for a possible joint DM+astro interpretation of the data, with a dark matter mass in the 50-80 GeV range (depending on the pulsars modeling) and an annihilation cross section in the range (0.7 {\div} 3) times the thermal cross section.

Dark matter vs. astrophysics in the interpretation of AMS-02 electron and positron data

DONATO, Fiorenza;FORNENGO, Nicolao;VITTINO, ANDREA
2016-01-01

Abstract

We perform a detailed quantitative analysis of the recent AMS-02 electron and positron data. We investigate the interplay between the emission from primary astrophysical sources, namely Supernova Remnants and Pulsar Wind Nebulae, and the contribution from a dark matter annihilation or decay signal. Our aim is to assess the information that can be derived on dark matter properties when both dark matter and primary astrophysical sources are assumed to jointly contribute to the leptonic observables measured by the AMS-02 experiment. We investigate both the possibility to set robust constraints on the dark matter annihilation/decay rate and the possibility to look for dark matter signals within realistic models that take into account the full complexity of the astrophysical background. Our results show that AMS-02 data enable to probe efficiently vast regions of the dark matter parameter space and, in some cases, to set constraints on the dark matter annihilation/decay rate that are comparable or even stronger with respect to the ones that can be derived from other indirect detection channels. For dark matter annihilation into muons, the bounds leave room for a possible joint DM+astro interpretation of the data, with a dark matter mass in the 50-80 GeV range (depending on the pulsars modeling) and an annihilation cross section in the range (0.7 {\div} 3) times the thermal cross section.
2016
2016
5, 031
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https://arxiv.org/abs/1507.07001
Mauro, Mattia Di; Donato, Fiorenza; Fornengo, Nicolao; Vittino, Andrea
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