Data di Pubblicazione:
2023
Abstract:
Sub-GeV dark matter particles can annihilate or decay producing e +/- pairs which upscatter the low-energy photon fields in the Galaxy and generate an X-ray emission (via the Inverse Compton effect). Using X-ray data from XMM-NEWTON, INTEGRAL, NUSTAR and SUZAKU, we derive new constraints on this class of dark matter (DM). In the annihilation case, our new bounds are the strongest available for DM masses above 180 MeV, reaching (o -v) <= 10-28 cm3/s for mDM ' 1 GeV. In the decay case, our bounds are the strongest to date over a large fraction of the considered mass range, constraining-r >= 1028 s for mDM ' 1 GeV and improving by up to 3 orders of magnitude upon existing limits.
Tipologia CRIS:
03A-Articolo su Rivista
Keywords:
dark matter theory; cosmic ray theory; X-rays
Elenco autori:
Cirelli, Marco; Fornengo, Nicolao; Koechler, Jordan; Pinetti, Elena; Roach, Brandon M.
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