Searching for Signals of Dark Matter Decay
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چکیده
Dark matter is believed to comprise approximately eighty-three percent of the matter in the universe, yet little is known about how it fits into our picture of the elementary particles that make up the world around us. There are now many great efforts underway to try and detect dark matter and probe the nature of its relation to the Standard Model of particle physics. In this work we investigate the possibility of leptonically decaying dark matter using terrestrial neutrino telescopes. We apply the results to models of spin-1/2, charge-asymmetric dark matter whose parameters have been fitted to describe the observed electron-positron flux seen at the PAMELA, H.E.S.S., and Fermi-LAT experiments.
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