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Dark Matter Annihilation Can Produce a Detectable Antihelium Flux through (Lambda)over-bar(b) Decays
Stockholm University, Faculty of Science, Department of Physics. Stockholm University, Faculty of Science, The Oskar Klein Centre for Cosmo Particle Physics (OKC).ORCID iD: 0000-0002-4436-0820
Stockholm University, Faculty of Science, Department of Physics. Stockholm University, Faculty of Science, The Oskar Klein Centre for Cosmo Particle Physics (OKC).ORCID iD: 0000-0001-9888-0971
Number of Authors: 22021 (English)In: Physical Review Letters, ISSN 0031-9007, E-ISSN 1079-7114, Vol. 126, no 10, article id 101101Article in journal (Refereed) Published
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Recent observations by the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS-02) have tentatively detected a handful of cosmic-ray antihelium events. Such events have long been considered as smoking-gun evidence for new physics, because astrophysical antihelium production is expected to be negligible. However, the darkmatter-induced antihelium flux is also expected to fall below current sensitivities, particularly in light of existing antiproton constraints. Here, we demonstrate that a previously neglected standard model process-the production of antihelium through the displaced-vertex decay of (Lambda) over bar (b)-baryons-can significantly boost the dark matter induced antihelium flux. This process can entirely dominate the production of high-energy antihelium nuclei, increasing the rate of detectable AMS-02 events by 2 orders of magnitude.

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2021. Vol. 126, no 10, article id 101101
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URN: urn:nbn:se:su:diva-192167DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.126.101101ISI: 000627620900003OAI: oai:DiVA.org:su-192167DiVA, id: diva2:1545083
Available from: 2021-04-17 Created: 2021-04-17 Last updated: 2022-02-25Bibliographically approved

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