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Gamma ray lines from TeV dark matter

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2010-11-30 v1 Astrophysics

Abstract

We calculate, using unitarity, a lower bound on the branching ratio χχγγ\chi\chi\to \gamma\gamma and χχγZ\chi\chi\to \gamma Z, where χ\chi is any halo dark matter particle that has W+WW^+W^- as one of the major annihilation modes. Examples of such particles are supersymmetric particles with a dominant Higgsino component, or heavy triplet neutrinos. A substantial branching ratio is found for the γγ\gamma\gamma and γZ\gamma Z modes. We estimate the strength of the monoenergetic γ\gamma ray lines that result from such annihilations in the Galactic or LMC halos. (Latex file; 2 compressed uuencoded postscript figures available by anonymous ftp from vanosf.physto.se in file pub/figures/lines.uu)

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/9403239,
  title  = {Gamma ray lines from TeV dark matter},
  author = {L. Bergstrom and J. Kaplan},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/9403239},
  year   = {2010}
}

Comments

11 pages, USITP-94-03; PAR-LPTHE 94-06