English

No evidence for p- or d-wave dark matter annihilation from local large-scale structure

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics 2026-02-16 v2 Astrophysics of Galaxies High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

Abstract

If dark matter annihilates into standard model particles with a cross-section which is velocity dependent, then Local Group dwarf galaxies will not be the best place to search for the resulting gamma ray emission. A greater flux would be produced by more distant and massive halos, with larger velocity dispersions. We construct full-sky predictions for the gamma-ray emission from galaxy- and cluster-mass halos within 200Mpc\sim 200 {\rm \, Mpc} using a suite of constrained NN-body simulations (CSiBORG\texttt{CSiBORG}) based on the Bayesian Origin Reconstruction from Galaxies algorithm. Comparing to observations from the Fermi Large Area Telescope and marginalising over reconstruction uncertainties and other astrophysical contributions to the flux, we obtain constraints on the cross-section which are two (seven) orders of magnitude tighter than those obtained from dwarf spheroidals for pp-wave (dd-wave) annihilation. We find no evidence for either type of annihilation from dark matter particles with masses in the range mχ=2500GeV/c2m_\chi = 2-500{\rm \, GeV}/c^2, for any channel. As an example, for annihilations producing bottom quarks with mχ=10GeV/c2m_\chi = 10 {\rm \, GeV}/c^2, we find a1<2.4×1021cm3s1a_{1} < 2.4 \times 10^{-21} {\rm \, cm^3 s^{-1}} and a2<3.0×1018cm3s1a_{2} < 3.0 \times 10^{-18} {\rm \, cm^3 s^{-1}} at 95% confidence, where the product of the cross-section, σ\sigma, and relative particle velocity, vv, is given by σv=a(v/c)2\sigma v = a_\ell (v/c)^{2\ell} and =1,2\ell=1, 2 for pp-, dd-wave annihilation, respectively. Our bounds, although failing to exclude the thermal relic cross-section for velocity-dependent annihilation channels, are among the tightest to date.

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Cite

@article{arxiv.2304.10301,
  title  = {No evidence for p- or d-wave dark matter annihilation from local large-scale structure},
  author = {Andrija Kostić and Deaglan J. Bartlett and Harry Desmond},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2304.10301},
  year   = {2026}
}

Comments

15 pages, 5 figures; accepted for publication in Physical Review D