AMS-02 Positrons from Decaying Wino in the Pure Gravity Mediation Model

TL;DR

This paper demonstrates that decaying wino dark matter within the pure gravity mediation model can explain the AMS-02 positron excess while remaining consistent with cosmic-ray and gamma-ray constraints.

Contribution

It introduces a novel explanation for the positron excess using decaying wino dark matter in the pure gravity mediation framework, incorporating tiny R-parity violation.

Findings

Decaying wino dark matter reproduces the positron fraction spectrum.

The model is consistent with anti-proton and gamma-ray observational constraints.

The proposed scenario aligns with cosmic-ray data from AMS-02, PAMELA, and Fermi-LAT.

Abstract

The AMS-02 collaboration has recently reported an excess of the cosmic-ray positron fraction, which turned out to be consistent with previous results reported by the PAMELA and Fermi-LAT collaborations. A decaying dark matter with the mass around 1 TeV can be responsible for the excess of the positron fraction when it is interpreted as a dark matter signal. Interestingly, the pure gravity mediation model provides such a dark matter, namely an almost pure neutral wino dark matter, when a tiny R-parity violation through $LLE^c$ interactions is introduced. We show that the decaying wino dark matter well reproduces the energy spectrum of the fraction with being consistent with constraints from cosmic-ray anti-proton and gamma-ray observations.