AMS-02 antiprotons, at last! Secondary astrophysical component and immediate implications for Dark Matter

Using the updated proton and helium fluxes just released by the AMS-02 experiment we reevaluate the secondary astrophysical antiproton to proton ratio and its uncertainties, and compare it with the ratio preliminarly reported by AMS-02. We find no unambiguous evidence for a significant excess with r...

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Veröffentlicht in:arXiv.org 2015-09
Hauptverfasser: Giesen, Gaëlle, Boudaud, Mathieu, Genolini, Yoann, Poulin, Vivian, Cirelli, Marco, Salati, Pierre, Serpico, Pasquale D
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Zusammenfassung:Using the updated proton and helium fluxes just released by the AMS-02 experiment we reevaluate the secondary astrophysical antiproton to proton ratio and its uncertainties, and compare it with the ratio preliminarly reported by AMS-02. We find no unambiguous evidence for a significant excess with respect to expectations. Yet, some preference for a flatter energy dependence of the diffusion coefficient starts to emerge. Also, we provide a first assessment of the room left for exotic components such as Galactic Dark Matter annihilation or decay, deriving new stringent constraints.
ISSN:2331-8422
DOI:10.48550/arxiv.1504.04276