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Setting Limits on Supersymmetry Using Simplified Models
Published on: November 15, 2013
Gamma rays from heavy neutralino dark matter
Lars Bergström1, Torsten Bringmann, Martin Eriksson
1Department of Physics, Stockholm University, AlbaNova University Center, SE - 106 91 Stockholm, Sweden. lbe@physto.se
Abstract:
We consider the gamma-ray spectrum from neutralino dark matter annihilations and show that internal bremsstrahlung of pair final states gives a previously neglected source of photons at energies near the mass of the neutralino. For masses larger than about 1 TeV, and for present day detector resolutions, this results in a characteristic signal that may dominate not only over the continuous spectrum from W fragmentation, but also over the gammagamma and gammaZ line signals which are known to give large rates for heavy neutralinos. Observational prospects thus seem promising.
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