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Celestial-body focused dark matter annihilation throughout the Galaxy
Stockholm University, Faculty of Science, Department of Physics. Stockholm University, Faculty of Science, The Oskar Klein Centre for Cosmo Particle Physics (OKC).ORCID iD: 0000-0001-9888-0971
Number of Authors: 42021 (English)In: Physical Review D: covering particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology, ISSN 2470-0010, E-ISSN 2470-0029, Vol. 103, no 7, article id 075030Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

Indirect detection experiments typically measure the flux of annihilating dark matter (DM) particles propagating freely through galactic halos. We consider a new scenario where celestial bodies focus DM annihilation events, increasing the efficiency of halo annihilation. In this setup, DM is first captured by celestial bodies, such as neutron stars or brown dwarfs, and then annihilates within them. If DM annihilates to sufficiently long-lived particles, they can escape and subsequently decay into detectable radiation. This produces a distinctive annihilation morphology, which scales as the product of the DM and celestial body densities, rather than as DM density squared. We show that this signal can dominate over the halo annihilation rate in gamma-ray observations in both the Milky Way Galactic center and globular clusters. We use Fermi and H.E.S.S. data to constrain the DM-nucleon scattering cross section, setting powerful new limits down to similar to 10(-39) cm(2) for sub-GeV DM using brown dwarfs, which is up to 9 orders of magnitude stronger than existing limits. We demonstrate that neutron stars can set limits for TeV-scale DM down to about 10(-47) cm(2).

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2021. Vol. 103, no 7, article id 075030
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Particle astrophysics, Particle dark matter
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URN: urn:nbn:se:su:diva-195303DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.103.075030ISI: 000648581600007Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85105439477OAI: oai:DiVA.org:su-195303DiVA, id: diva2:1585319
Available from: 2021-08-16 Created: 2021-08-16 Last updated: 2022-11-10Bibliographically approved

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