Constraining dark matter properties with gamma-rays from the Galactic Center with Fermi-LAT

DOI10.1016/J.NUCLPHYSB.2011.12.016zbMATH Open1246.83240arXiv1006.0477OpenAlexW2099296187MaRDI QIDQ447265FDOQ447265

Sergio Palomares-Ruiz, N. Bernal

Publication date: 3 September 2012

Published in: Nuclear Physics B (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We study the capabilities of the Fermi-LAT instrument on board of the Fermi mission to constrain particle dark matter properties, as annihilation cross section, mass and branching ratio into dominant annihilation channels, with gamma-ray observations from the galactic center. Besides the prompt gamma-ray flux, we also take into account the contribution from the electrons/positrons produced in dark matter annihilations to the gamma-ray signal via inverse Compton scattering off the interstellar photon background, which turns out to be crucial in the case of dark matter annihilations into mu+mu- and e+e- pairs. We study the signal dependence on different parameters like the region of observation, the density profile, the assumptions for the dark matter model and the uncertainties in the propagation model. We also show the effect of the inclusion of a 20% systematic uncertainty in the gamma-ray background. If Fermi-LAT is able to distinguish a possible dark matter signal from the large gamma-ray background, we show that for dark matter masses below ~200 GeV, Fermi-LAT will likely be able to determine dark matter properties with good accuracy.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1006.0477

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zbMATH Keywords

Milky Waydark matter theorygamma-ray theory

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Relativistic cosmology (83F05) Radiative transfer in astronomy and astrophysics (85A25) Galactic and stellar structure (85A15)

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• Signatures of synchrotron radiation from the annihilation of dark matter at the Galactic Centre
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• Gamma ray line constraints on effective theories of dark matter

Uses Software

• PYTHIA8

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