Cosmic Ray Antihelium from a Strongly Coupled Dark Sector [CL]

http://arxiv.org/abs/2211.00025


Standard Model extensions with a strongly coupled dark sector can induce high-multiplicity states of soft quarks. Such final states trigger extremely efficient antinucleus formation. We show that dark matter annihilation or decay into a strongly coupled sector can dramatically enhance the cosmic-ray antinuclei flux — by six orders of magnitude in the case of ${^4\overline{\text{He}}}$. In this work, we argue that the tentative ${^3\overline{\text{He}}}$ and ${^4\overline{\text{He}}}$ events reported by the AMS-02 collaboration could be the first sign of a strongly coupled dark sector observed in nature.

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M. Winkler, P. Luque and T. Linden
Thu, 3 Nov 22
23/59

Comments: 9 pages, 2 figures