Decaying dark matter baryons in a composite messenger model

Koichi Hamaguchi, Eita Nakamura, Satoshi Shirai, T.T. Yanagida
2009 Physics Letters B  
A baryonic bound state with a mass of O(100) TeV, which is composed of strongly interacting messenger quarks in the low scale gauge mediation, can naturally be the cold dark matter. Interestingly, we find that such a baryonic dark matter is generically metastable, and the decay of this dark matter can naturally explain the anomalous positron flux recently observed by the PAMELA collaboration.
doi:10.1016/j.physletb.2009.03.025 fatcat:iakzelnpwver5p2pmix42jeb7i