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 (where 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 , where , and is a light fermion that may or not be the same as . 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 .
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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