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511 keV line and diffuse gamma rays from moduli

Astrophysics 2009-11-11 v2 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

Abstract

We obtain the spectrum of gamma ray emissions from the moduli whose decay into e+ee^+ e^- accounts for the 511 keV line observed by SPI/INTERGRAL. The moduli emit gamma rays through internal bremsstrahlung, and also decay directly into two gammas via tree and/or one-loop diagrams. We show that the internal bremsstahlung constrains the mass of the moduli below 40\sim 40 MeV model-independently. On the other hand, the flux of two gammas directly decayed from the moduli through one loop diagrams will exceed the observed galactic diffuse gamma-ray background if the moduli mass exceeds 20\sim 20 MeV in the typical situation. Moreover, forthcoming analysis of SPI data in the range of 1-8 MeV may detect the line emisson with the energy half the moduli mass in the near future, which confirms the decaying moduli scenario.

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@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0602296,
  title  = {511 keV line and diffuse gamma rays from moduli},
  author = {Shinta Kasuya and Masahiro Kawasaki},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0602296},
  year   = {2009}
}

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6 pages, 5 figures, published version