Indirect Dark Matter Signals
- Physikhochhaus, IEKP, Universitaet Karlsruhe Postfach 6980, D-76128 Karlsruhe (Germany)
Dark Matter annihilation (DMA) may yield an excess of gamma rays and antimatter particles, like antiprotons and positrons, above the background from cosmic ray interactions. Several signatures, ranging from the positron excess, as observed by HEAT, AMS-01 and PAMELA, the gamma ray excess, as observed by the EGRET spectrometer, the WMAP-haze, and constraints from antiprotons, as observed by CAPRICE, BESS and PAMELA, have been discussed in the literature. Unfortunately, the different signatures all lead to different WIMP masses, indicating that at least some of these interpretations are likely to be incorrect. Here we review them and discuss their relative merits and uncertainties. New x-ray data from ROSAT suggests non-negligible convection in our Galaxy, which leads to an order of magnitude uncertainty in the yield of charged particles from DMA, since even a rather small convection will let drift the charged particles in the halo to outer space.
- OSTI ID:
- 21254981
- Journal Information:
- AIP Conference Proceedings, Vol. 1078, Issue 1; Conference: SUSY08: 16. international conference on supersymmetry and the unification of fundamental interactions, Seoul (Korea, Republic of), 16-21 Jun 2008; Other Information: DOI: 10.1063/1.3051890; (c) 2008 American Institute of Physics; Country of input: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA); ISSN 0094-243X
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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