Flavor Structure of the Cosmic-Ray Electron/Positron Excesses at DAMPE

Abstract

The Dark Matter Particle Explorer (DAMPE) satellite detector announced its first result for measuring the cosmic-ray electron/positron (CRE) energy spectrum up to 4.6TeV, including a tentative peak-like event excess at (1.3-1.5)TeV. In this work, we uncover a significant hidden excess in the DAMPE CRE spectrum over the energy range (0.6-1.1)TeV, which has a non-peak-like structure. We propose a new mechanism to explain this excess by a set of 1.5TeV ${\mu }^{\pm }$ events with subsequent decays into $e^{\pm }$ plus neutrinos. For explaining this new excess together with the peak excess around 1.4TeV, we demonstrate that the {\it flavor structure} of the original lepton final-state produced by dark matter (DM) annihilations (or other mechanism) should have a composition ratio $N_e:(N_{\mu }+\frac{1}{6}{N}_{\tau })=1:y$, with $y\simeq 2.6-10.8$. For lepton portal DM models, this puts important constraint on the lepton-DM-mediator couplings ${\lambda }_e:({\lambda }_{\mu }^4+\frac{1}{6}{\lambda }_{\tau }^4{)}^{\frac{1}{4}}=1:y^{\frac{1}{4}}$ with a narrow range $y^{\frac{1}{4}}\simeq 1.3-1.8$.

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