Indirect Dark Matter Searches in the Light of ATIC, FERMI, EGRET and PAMELA Export

@article{citeulike:5942450, abstract = {Recently, new data on antiprotons and positrons from PAMELA, e- + e+ spectra from ATIC, FERMI and HESS up to TeV energies all indicate deviations from expectations, which has caused an interesting mix of new explanations, ranging from background, standard astrophysical sources to signals from dark matter (DM) annihilation. Unfortunately, the excess in positrons is not matched with obvious excesses in antiprotons or gamma rays, so a new class of DM scenarios with leptophilic WIMP candidates have been invoked. On the other hand, the increase in the positron fraction, which could have had any spectral shape for new physics, matches well the shape expected from proton background.}, archivePrefix = {arXiv}, author = {de Boer, Wim}, citeulike-article-id = {5942450}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://arxiv.org/abs/0910.2601}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://arxiv.org/pdf/0910.2601}, day = {14}, eprint = {0910.2601}, keywords = {dd, dm, id}, month = {Oct}, posted-at = {2009-10-15 07:01:35}, priority = {2}, title = {Indirect Dark Matter Searches in the Light of ATIC, FERMI, EGRET and PAMELA}, url = {http://arxiv.org/abs/0910.2601}, year = {2009} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:5942450 L3 - citeulike-article-id:5942450 N2 - Recently, new data on antiprotons and positrons from PAMELA, e- + e+ spectra from ATIC, FERMI and HESS up to TeV energies all indicate deviations from expectations, which has caused an interesting mix of new explanations, ranging from background, standard astrophysical sources to signals from dark matter (DM) annihilation. Unfortunately, the excess in positrons is not matched with obvious excesses in antiprotons or gamma rays, so a new class of DM scenarios with leptophilic WIMP candidates have been invoked. On the other hand, the increase in the positron fraction, which could have had any spectral shape for new physics, matches well the shape expected from proton background. TI - Indirect Dark Matter Searches in the Light of ATIC, FERMI, EGRET and PAMELA KW - dd KW - dm KW - id AU - de Boer, Wim PY - 2009/Oct/14/ UR - http://arxiv.org/abs/0910.2601 ER -