English

WIMP annihilation in caustics

Astrophysics 2008-11-26 v2 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

Abstract

The continuous infall of dark matter with low velocity dispersion from all directions in a galactic halo leads to the formation of caustics which are very small scale (\simparsec) high density structures. If the dark matter is made up of SUSY neutralinos, the annihilation of these particles produces a characteristic spectrum of gamma rays which in principle, could be detected. The annihilation signal at different energy bands is computed and compared with the expected gamma ray background.

Keywords

Cite

@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0703704,
  title  = {WIMP annihilation in caustics},
  author = {Aravind Natarajan},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0703704},
  year   = {2008}
}

Comments

12 pages, 4 figures, Minor changes - Expanded captions, added references, detection estimates given, accepted for publication in Phys. Rev. D