A combined dark matter study of AMS-02 antiprotons and Fermi-LAT gamma rays [HEAP]

http://arxiv.org/abs/1711.06460


Observations of cosmic rays are a sensitive probe of dark matter annihilation in our Galaxy. In this article we present an analysis of the AMS-02 antiproton data, reducing cosmic-ray propagation uncertainties by fitting at the same time dark matter and propagation parameters. The result exhibits a possible hint for dark matter pointing to an annihilation cross section close to the thermal value. We investigate the compatibility of this signal with a dark matter interpretation of the Galactic center excess seen in the Fermi-LAT gamma-ray data and discuss implications for dark matter models.

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A. Cuoco, J. Heisig, M. Korsmeier, et. al.
Mon, 20 Nov 17
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Comments: Contribution to the proceedings of the EPS Conference on High Energy Physics (EPS-HEP) 2017; 5 pages + references, 2 figures