Cosmic positron and antiproton constraints on the gauge-Higgs Dark Matter

TL;DR

This paper investigates cosmic ray positron and antiproton signals from a gauge-Higgs dark matter candidate in a warped extra-dimensional model, constraining its mass to 70-90 GeV based on observational data.

Contribution

It provides the first detailed calculation of cosmic ray spectra from gauge-Higgs dark matter in a warped 5D model, linking particle physics with astrophysical observations.

Findings

Dark matter mass constrained to 70-90 GeV.

Higgs boson mass cannot exceed 90 GeV to match observations.

Dominant annihilation channel is H H → W+ W−.

Abstract

We calculate the cosmic ray positron and antiproton spectra of a gauge-Higgs dark matter candidate in a warped five-dimensional $SO(5) \times U(1)$ gauge-Higgs unification model. The stability of the gauge-Higgs boson is guaranteed by the H parity under which only the Higgs boson is odd at low energy. The 4-point vertices of HHW^+W^- and HHZZ, allowed by H parity conservation, have the same magnitude as in the standard model, which yields efficient annihilation rate for $m_H > m_W$. The most dominant annihilation channel is $H H \to W^+ W^-$ followed by the subsequent decays of the $W$ bosons into positrons or quarks, which undergo fragmentation into antiproton. Comparing with the observed positron and antiproton spectra with the PAMALA and Fermi/LAT, we found that the Higgs boson mass cannot be larger than 90 GeV, in order not to overrun the observations. Together with the constraint on not overclosing the Universe, the valid range of the dark matter mass is restricted to 70-90 GeV.