EPT Seminar

Date
Mon, Oct 5, 2015 3:00 pm - 4:30 pm
Location
PSC 3150

Description

Speaker: Doojin Kim

Speaker Institution: University of Florida

Title: Energy Peak: Back to Cosmic Ray Excesses

Abstract: It has been shown that the energy distribution of the massless decay product
from the 2-body decay of a scalar or unpolarized mother particle has a peak,
whose location is identical to the fixed energy of that particle in the rest frame of the
corresponding mother particle although its underlying boost distribution is unknown.
In this talk, I will discuss how this observation can be applied to anomalous excesses
in cosmic ray measurements, having dark matter interpretation in mind,
together with several concrete examples such as the Galactic Center GeV excess,
line-like gamma-ray excesses, and MeV-range gamma-ray signatures under
the dynamical dark matter framework. I will also briefly discuss distinctive morphological
features of the relevant cosmic ray energy spectra, which can used for unveiling
the details of underlying dark matter scenarios.