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Constraining Gravitational Dark Matter with LHAASO and Fermi-LAT

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2025-12-12 v1 Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics

Abstract

We use diffuse Galactic high energy gamma ray data from LHAASO and Fermi-LAT to constrain gravitationally produced decaying dark matter (DM). Focusing on four benchmark candidates: a dark photon, a heavy right-handed neutrino (RHN), a pseudo-Nambu-Goldstone boson (pNGB), and a non-minimally coupled scalar we derive bounds on the DM mass and its couplings to the visible sector. For dark photons, RHNs, and pNGBs, the combined data constrain the relevant interaction strength to O(1030)\lesssim\mathcal{O}(10^{-30}) for DM masses O\gtrsim\mathcal{O}(TeV), while the non-minimally coupled scalar is limited to O(1010)\lesssim\mathcal{O}(10^{-10}). Moreover, photon-dark photon oscillations yield strong constraints for massive dark photon beyond 10 GeV, closing a region of parameter space previously left unconstrained.

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@article{arxiv.2512.09997,
  title  = {Constraining Gravitational Dark Matter with LHAASO and Fermi-LAT},
  author = {Basabendu Barman and Arindam Das and Prantik Sarmah and Rakesh Kumar SivaKumar},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2512.09997},
  year   = {2025}
}

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8 pages, 2 figures