English

Bremsstrahlung in dark matter annihilation

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2012-01-10 v2 High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena High Energy Physics - Experiment

Abstract

We show that the energy spectra from dark matter (DM) annihilation into f+fγf^+f^-\gamma (where ff is a light fermion) via chirality preserving interactions are identical in 3 scenarios: (a) DM is a Majorana fermion and the particle exchanged is a scalar, (b) DM is a Majorana fermion and the particle exchanged is a vector and (c) DM is a scalar and the particle exchanged is a fermion. For cases (a) and (c), we also calculate the differential cross section to +fV\ell^+f^-V, where V=W,Z,γV=W,Z,\gamma, and \ell is a light fermion that may or not be the same as ff. The form of the cross section depends on whether the DM is a Majorana fermion or a scalar but in both cases its form is independent of VV.

Keywords

Cite

@article{arxiv.1111.4523,
  title  = {Bremsstrahlung in dark matter annihilation},
  author = {Vernon Barger and Wai-Yee Keung and Danny Marfatia},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1111.4523},
  year   = {2012}
}

Comments

6 pages. Version to appear in PLB

R2 v1 2026-06-21T19:38:26.663Z