English

Indirect constraints to branon dark matter

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics 2015-06-04 v1 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

Abstract

If the present dark matter in the Universe annihilates into Standard Model particles, it must contribute to the gamma ray fluxes detected on the Earth. Here we briefly review the present constraints for the detection of gamma ray photons produced in the annihilation of branon dark matter. We show that observations of dwarf spheroidal galaxies and the galactic center by EGRET, Fermi-LAT or MAGIC are below the sensitivity limits for branon detection. However,future experiments such as CTA could be able to detect gamma-ray photons from annihilating branons of masses above 150 GeV.

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@article{arxiv.1202.1707,
  title  = {Indirect constraints to branon dark matter},
  author = {J. A. R. Cembranos and A. de la Cruz-Dombriz and V. Gammaldi and A. L. Maroto},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1202.1707},
  year   = {2015}
}

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4 pages, 3 figures. Contribution to the Proceedings of Spanish Relativity Meeting ERE2011, Madrid 29 August - 2 September 2011

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