Novel Gamma-Ray Signatures of PeV-Scale Dark Matter
Abstract
The gamma-ray annihilation and decay products of very heavy dark matter particles can undergo attenuation through pair production, leading to the development of electromagnetic cascades. This has a significant impact not only on the spectral shape of the gamma-ray signal, but also on the angular distribution of the observed photons. Such phenomena are particularly important in light of the new HAWC experiment, which provides unprecedented sensitivity to multi-TeV photons and thus to very heavy dark matter particles. In this study, we focus on dark matter in the 100 TeV-100 PeV mass range, and calculate the spectral and angular distribution of gamma-rays from dwarf galaxies and from nearby galaxy clusters in this class of models.
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@article{arxiv.1712.02805,
title = {Novel Gamma-Ray Signatures of PeV-Scale Dark Matter},
author = {Carlos Blanco and J. Patrick Harding and Dan Hooper},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1712.02805},
year = {2018}
}
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18 pages, 7 figures