Gamma Rays from Heavy Neutralino Dark Matter
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2009-11-11 v2 Astrophysics
Abstract
We consider the gamma-ray spectrum from neutralino dark matter annihilations and show that internal bremsstrahlung of W pair final states gives a previously neglected source of photons at energies near the mass of the neutralino. For masses larger than about 1 TeV, and for present day detector resolutions, this results in a characteristic signal that may dominate not only over the continuous spectrum from W fragmentation, but also over the \gamma-\gamma and \gamma-Z line signals which are known to give large rates for heavy neutralinos. Observational prospects thus seem promising.
Cite
@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0507229,
title = {Gamma Rays from Heavy Neutralino Dark Matter},
author = {Lars Bergstrom and Torsten Bringmann and Martin Eriksson and Michael Gustafsson},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0507229},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
4 pages, 4 figures; revised to match published version