English

Indirect Detection of Little Higgs Dark Matter

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2008-11-26 v1

Abstract

Little Higgs models with T parity contain an attractive dark matter candidate, the heavy photon. We compute the cross section of the heavy photon annihilation into Z-photon pairs, which turns out to be substantially higher than the previously computed cross section for the two photon final state. Unfortunately, even with this enhancement, the monochromatic photon flux from galactic heavy photon annihilation is unlikely to be detectable by GLAST or the currently operating atmospheric Cerenkov telescopes. We also compute the flux of high-energy neutrinos from the annihilation of the heavy photons captured by the Sun and the Earth. The maximum flux of upward-going muons due to such neutrinos is about 1 yr^{-1}km^{-2}.

Keywords

Cite

@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0610357,
  title  = {Indirect Detection of Little Higgs Dark Matter},
  author = {Maxim Perelstein and Andrew Spray},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0610357},
  year   = {2008}
}

Comments

13 pages, 3 figures