# CR antinuclei predictions and their detectability in the next years

- Institution: CERN
- Department: Eucapt Conferences
- Speaker: Pedro De la Torre Luque
- Year: 2023
- Language: English
- Source: [CERN](https://videos.cern.ch/record/3016407)
- Licence: [CERN](http://copyright.web.cern.ch)
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (sources give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the source's own words)

The creation of anti-nuclei in the Galaxy has been has been discussed as a possible signal of exotic production mechanisms such as primordial black hole evaporation or dark matter decay/annihilation in addition to the more conventional production from cosmic-ray (CR) interactions. Tentative observations of cosmic-ray antihelium by the AMS-02 collaboration have re-energized the quest to use antinuclei to search for physics beyond the standard model. In this talk, we show state-of-art predictions of the antinuclei flux from both astrophysical and standard dark matter annihilation models from combined fits to high-precision antiproton data as well as cosmic-ray nuclei measurements (B, Be, Li). Astrophysical sources are capable of producing $\mathcal{O}(1)$ antideuteron events and $\mathcal{O}(0.1)$ anti-helium events over 15~years of AMS-02 observations. Standard dark matter models could potentially produce $\mathcal{O}(1)$ antihelium event, while the production of a larger antihelium flux would require more novel dark matter model building. Finally, we discuss that the annihilation/decay of a QCD-like dark sector could potentially explain the AMS-02 preliminary observations of antihelium-3 and antihelium-4..

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## Lectures

1. [CR antinuclei predictions and their detectability in the next years](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/cern/3016407/bc05b685099b), 7 min (CERN's player)