TY - JOUR
T1 - Probing gravitino dark matter with PAMELA and Fermi
AU - Buchmüller, Wilfried
AU - Ibarra, Alejandro
AU - Shindou, Tetsuo
AU - Takayama, Fumihiro
AU - Tran, David
PY - 2009
Y1 - 2009
N2 - We analyse the cosmic-ray signatures of decaying gravitino dark matter in a model-independent way based on an operator analysis. Thermal leptogenesis and universal boundary conditions at the GUT scale restrict the gravitino mass to be below 600 GeV. Electron and positron fluxes from gravitino decays, together with the standard GALPROP background, cannot explain both the PAMELA positron fraction and the electron + positron flux recently measured by Fermi LAT. For gravitino dark matter, the observed fluxes require astrophysical sources. The measured antiproton flux allows for a sizable contribution of decaying gravitinos to the gamma-ray spectrum, in particular a line at an energy below 300 GeV. Future measurements of the gamma-ray flux will provide important constraints on possible signatures of decaying gravitino dark matter at the LHC.
AB - We analyse the cosmic-ray signatures of decaying gravitino dark matter in a model-independent way based on an operator analysis. Thermal leptogenesis and universal boundary conditions at the GUT scale restrict the gravitino mass to be below 600 GeV. Electron and positron fluxes from gravitino decays, together with the standard GALPROP background, cannot explain both the PAMELA positron fraction and the electron + positron flux recently measured by Fermi LAT. For gravitino dark matter, the observed fluxes require astrophysical sources. The measured antiproton flux allows for a sizable contribution of decaying gravitinos to the gamma-ray spectrum, in particular a line at an energy below 300 GeV. Future measurements of the gamma-ray flux will provide important constraints on possible signatures of decaying gravitino dark matter at the LHC.
KW - Cosmic ray theory
KW - Cosmology of theories beyond the SM
KW - Dark matter theory
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=70350668457&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1088/1475-7516/2009/09/021
DO - 10.1088/1475-7516/2009/09/021
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:70350668457
SN - 1475-7516
VL - 2009
JO - Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics
JF - Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics
IS - 9
M1 - 021
ER -