2010/12/01 by Nicolás Bernal, Nicolas Bernal, Bernal, Nicolas
Physics and Astronomy · #Astrophysics and Cosmic Phenomena #Dark Matter and Cosmic Phenomena #FOS: Physical sciences #High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE) #High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph) #Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies #astro-ph.HE #hep-ph
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1012.0217
6 pages, 3 figures, submitted to the proceedings of "Identification of Dark Matter 2010," July 26-30, 2010, Montpellier, France
arxiv created 2010/12/01 · openalex publication_date 2010/12/01 · arxiv updated 2010/12/02 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
We study the capabilities of the Fermi-LAT instrument for identifying particle Dark Matter properties as mass, annihilation cross section and annihilation channels, with gamma-ray observations from the Galactic Center. For the potential Dark Matter signal, besides the prompt gamma-ray flux produced in Dark Matter annihilations, we also take into account the flux produced by inverse Compton scattering of the electrons and positrons generated in Dark Matter annihilations off the interstellar photon background. We show that the addition of this contribution is crucial in the case of annihilations into e+ e- and mu+ mu- pairs. In addition to the diffuse galactic and extragalactic background, we also consider the full catalog of high-energy gamma-ray point sources detected by Fermi. The impact of the degeneracies between the different Dark Matter annihilation channels has been studied. We find that for Dark Matter masses below ~200 GeV and for typical thermal annihilation cross sections, it will be possible to obtain stringent bounds on the Dark Matter properties.