{
  "id": "1007.1160",
  "version": "v2",
  "published": "2010-07-07T15:07:25.000Z",
  "updated": "2011-09-27T19:15:11.000Z",
  "title": "New Constraints from PAMELA anti-proton data on Annihilating and Decaying Dark Matter",
  "authors": [
    "Ilias Cholis"
  ],
  "comment": "7 pages, 3 figures, 3 tables",
  "journal": "JCAP 09 (2011) 007",
  "doi": "10.1088/1475-7516/2011/09/007",
  "categories": [
    "astro-ph.HE",
    "astro-ph.GA",
    "hep-ph"
  ],
  "abstract": "Recently the PAMELA experiment has released its updated anti-proton flux and anti-proton to proton flux ratio data up to energies of ~200GeV. With no clear excess of cosmic ray anti-protons at high energies, one can extend constraints on the production of anti-protons from dark matter. In this letter, we consider both the cases of dark matter annihilating and decaying into standard model particles that produce significant numbers of anti-protons. We provide two sets of constraints on the annihilation cross-sections/decay lifetimes. In the one set of constraints we ignore any source of anti-protons other than dark matter, which give the highest allowed cross-sections/inverse lifetimes. In the other set we include also anti-protons produced in collisions of cosmic rays with interstellar medium nuclei, getting tighter but more realistic constraints on the annihilation cross-sections/decay lifetimes.",
  "revisions": [
    {
      "version": "v2",
      "updated": "2011-09-27T19:15:11.000Z"
    }
  ],
  "analyses": {
    "keywords": [
      "pamela anti-proton data",
      "decaying dark matter",
      "constraints",
      "annihilation cross-sections/decay lifetimes",
      "proton flux ratio data"
    ],
    "tags": [
      "journal article"
    ],
    "publication": {
      "publisher": "IOP",
      "journal": "J. Cosmol. Astropart. Phys."
    },
    "note": {
      "typesetting": "TeX",
      "pages": 7,
      "language": "en",
      "license": "arXiv",
      "status": "editable",
      "inspire": 860583,
      "adsabs": "2010arXiv1007.1160C"
    }
  }
}