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Fermi Large Area Telescope Search for Photon Lines from 30 to 200 GeV and Dark Matter Implications
- Publication Year :
- 2010
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Abstract
- Dark matter (DM) particle annihilation or decay can produce monochromatic γ rays readily distinguishable from astrophysical sources. γ-ray line limits from 30 to 200 GeV obtained from 11 months of Fermi Large Area Space Telescope data from 20-300 GeV are presented using a selection based on requirements for a γ-ray line analysis, and integrated over most of the sky. We obtain γ-ray line flux upper limits in the range 0.6-4.5×10-9cm-2s-1, and give corresponding DM annihilation cross-section and decay lifetime limits. Theoretical implications are briefly discussed.
- Subjects :
- Physics
010308 nuclear & particles physics
Hot dark matter
Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
Dark matter
Gamma ray
Scalar field dark matter
General Physics and Astronomy
Astrophysics
01 natural sciences
7. Clean energy
Baryonic dark matter
Weakly interacting massive particles
0103 physical sciences
High Energy Physics::Experiment
gamma-ray
010306 general physics
Light dark matter
Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope
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- OpenAIRE
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....04b54ba6a0604bf2efd703c3209bc13d