TY - JOUR
T1 - Decaying into the hidden sector
AU - Rudermana, Joshua T.
AU - Volansky, Tomer
PY - 2010
Y1 - 2010
N2 - The existence of light hidden sectors is an exciting possibility that may be tested in the near future. If DM is allowed to decay into such a hidden sector through GUT suppressed operators, it can accommodate the recent cosmic ray observations without over-producing antiprotons or interfering with the attractive features of the thermal WIMP. Models of this kind are simple to construct, generic and evade all astrophysical bounds. We provide tools for constructing such models and present several distinct examples. The light hidden spectrum and DM couplings can be probed in the near future, by measuring astrophysical photon and neutrino fluxes. These indirect signatures are complimentary to the direct production signals, such as lepton jets, predicted by these models.
AB - The existence of light hidden sectors is an exciting possibility that may be tested in the near future. If DM is allowed to decay into such a hidden sector through GUT suppressed operators, it can accommodate the recent cosmic ray observations without over-producing antiprotons or interfering with the attractive features of the thermal WIMP. Models of this kind are simple to construct, generic and evade all astrophysical bounds. We provide tools for constructing such models and present several distinct examples. The light hidden spectrum and DM couplings can be probed in the near future, by measuring astrophysical photon and neutrino fluxes. These indirect signatures are complimentary to the direct production signals, such as lepton jets, predicted by these models.
KW - Beyond standard model
KW - Cosmology of theories beyond the SM
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=77954939485&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/JHEP02(2010)024
DO - 10.1007/JHEP02(2010)024
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AN - SCOPUS:77954939485
SN - 1126-6708
VL - 2010
JO - Journal of High Energy Physics
JF - Journal of High Energy Physics
IS - 2
M1 - 24
ER -