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arxiv: 1702.00395 · v3 · pith:WUWFVSDUnew · submitted 2017-02-01 · ✦ hep-ph · astro-ph.CO· astro-ph.HE

Hidden sector explanation of B-decay and cosmic ray anomalies

classification ✦ hep-ph astro-ph.COastro-ph.HE
keywords excessanomaliesdarkdecaydetectionmatterquarksabundance
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There are presently several discrepancies in $b \to s \ell^+ \ell^-$ decays of $B$ mesons suggesting new physics coupling to $b$ quarks and leptons. We show that a $Z'$, with couplings to quarks and muons that can explain the $B$-decay anomalies, can also couple to dark matter in a way that is consistent with its relic abundance, direct detection limits, and hints of indirect detection. The latter include possible excess events in antiproton spectra recently observed by the AMS-02 experiment. We present two models, having a heavy (light) $Z'$ with $m_{Z'}\sim 600\,(12)\,$GeV and fermionic dark matter with mass $m_\chi \sim 50\,(2000)\,$GeV, producing excess antiprotons with energies of $\sim 10\, (300)\,$GeV. The first model is also compatible with fits for the galactic center GeV gamma-ray excess.

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