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arxiv: 1205.6783 · v2 · pith:ATIX656Snew · submitted 2012-05-30 · ✦ hep-ph · astro-ph.HE

Constraints on Hadronically Decaying Dark Matter

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keywords darkmatterconstraintsdecayhadronicchannelsdecaysderived
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We present general constraints on dark matter stability in hadronic decay channels derived from measurements of cosmic-ray antiprotons.We analyze various hadronic decay modes in a model-independent manner by examining the lowest-order decays allowed by gauge and Lorentz invariance for scalar and fermionic dark matter particles and present the corresponding lower bounds on the partial decay lifetimes in those channels. We also investigate the complementarity between hadronic and gamma-ray constraints derived from searches for monochromatic lines in the sky, which can be produced at the quantum level if the dark matter decays into quark-antiquark pairs at leading order.

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