Bibliographic Details
| Title: |
Cosmic-ray antiprotons in the AMS-02 era: A sensitive probe of dark matter. |
| Authors: |
Heisig, Jan1 (AUTHOR) jan.heisig@uclouvain.be |
| Source: |
Modern Physics Letters A. 2/20/2021, Vol. 36 Issue 5, pN.PAG-N.PAG. 22p. |
| Subjects: |
Dark matter, Antiprotons, Annihilation reactions, Cosmic rays, Particle interactions |
| Abstract: |
Cosmic-ray antiprotons are a powerful tool for astroparticle physics. While the bulk of measured antiprotons is consistent with a secondary origin, the precise data of the AMS-02 experiment provides us with encouraging prospects to search for a subdominant primary component, e.g. from dark matter. In this brief review, we discuss recent limits on heavy dark matter as well as a tentative signal from annihilation of dark matter with a mass ≲ 100 GeV. We emphasize the special role of systematic errors that can affect the signal. In particular, we discuss recent progress in the modeling of secondary production cross-sections and correlated errors in the AMS-02 data, the dominant ones originating from uncertainties in the cross-sections for cosmic-ray absorption in the detector. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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