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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.

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@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

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