Positron fraction from dark matter annihilation in the CMSSM

Abstract

We investigate, if the cosmic ray positron fraction, as reported by the HEAT and AMS collaborations, is compatible with the annihilation of neutralinos in the supergravity inspired Constrained Minimal Supersymmetric-Model (CMSSM), thus complementing previous investigations, which did not consider constraints from unification, electroweak symmetry breaking and the present Higgs limits at LEP. We perform a global fit of all SUSY parameters to low energy constraints and find that in the acceptable parameter regions the neutralino annihilation into b b quark pairs is the dominant channel and improves the fit to the experimental positron fraction data considerably with respect to a fit with background only. These fits are comparable to the fit for regions of parameter space, where the annihilation into W +W − pairs dominates. However, these latter regions are ruled out mainly by the present Higgs limit of 114 GeV from LEP in combination with b → X s γ data.