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Title: A search for dark matter in the Galactic halo with HAWC

Journal Article · · Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics
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  1. Univ. of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT (United States)
  2. Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
  3. National Autonomous Univ. of Mexico, Mexico City (Mexico)
  4. Autonomous Univ. of Chiapas (Mexico)
  5. Michoacan Univ. of Saint Nicholas of Hidalgo, Morelia (Mexico)
  6. Pennsylvania State Univ., University Park, PA (United States)
  7. Univ. of Rochester, NY (United States)
  8. Michigan Technological Univ., Houghton, MI (United States)
  9. National Inst. of Astrophysics, Optics and Electronics, Puebla (Mexico)
  10. Inst. of Nuclear Physics, Henryk Niewodniczanski Polish Academy of Sciences, Krakow (Poland)
  11. Meritorious Autonomous Univ. of Puebla (Mexico)
  12. Univ. of Guadalajara (Mexico)
  13. Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI (United States)
  14. Univ. of Maryland, College Park, MD (United States)
  15. Max-Planck Inst. for Nuclear Physics, Heidelberg (Germany)
  16. Univ. of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM (United States)
  17. Georgia Inst. of Technology, Atlanta, GA (United States)
  18. Michigan State Univ., East Lansing, MI (United States)
  19. Polytechnic Univ. of Pachuca (Mexico)
  20. National Polytechnic Inst., Mexico City (Mexico)
  21. Autonomous Univ. of the State of Hidalgo, Pachuca (Mexico)
  22. Massachusetts Inst. of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA (United States)
  23. Univ. of California, Santa Cruz, CA (United States)
  24. Stanford Univ., CA (United States)
  25. Univ. of California, Irvine, CA (United States)
  26. Center for Research and Advanced Studies of the National Polytechnic Inst. (CINVESTAV), Mexico City (Mexico)
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The High Altitude Water Cherenkov (HAWC) gamma-ray observatory is a wide field-of-view observatory sensitive to 500 GeV – 100 TeV gamma rays and cosmic rays. With its observations over 2/3 of the sky every day, the HAWC observatory is sensitive to a wide variety of astrophysical sources, including possible gamma rays from dark matter. Dark matter annihilation and decay in the Milky Way Galaxy should produce gamma-ray signals across many degrees on the sky. The HAWC instantaneous field-of-view of 2 sr enables observations of extended regions on the sky, such as those from dark matter in the Galactic halo. Here we show limits on the dark matter annihilation cross-section and decay lifetime from HAWC observations of the Galactic halo with 15 months of data. These are some of the most robust limits on TeV and PeV dark matter, largely insensitive to the dark matter morphology. These limits begin to constrain models in which PeV IceCube neutrinos are explained by dark matter which primarily decays into hadrons.

Research Organization:
Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), High Energy Physics (HEP); LANL Laboratory Directed Research and Development (LDRD) Program; National Science Foundation (NSF); National Council of Science and Technology (CONACYT) (Mexico); National Autonomous Univ. of Mexico; Polish Science Centre
Grant/Contract Number:
AC52-06NA25396; SC0012567; SC0013999; 271051; 232656; 260378; 179588; 239762; 254964; 271737; 258865; 243290; 132197; 281653; IG100317; IN111315; IN111716-3; IA102715; 109916; IA102917; DEC-2014/13/B/ST9/945
OSTI ID:
1430014
Report Number(s):
LA-UR-17-29899; TRN: US1802620
Journal Information:
Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, Vol. 2018, Issue 2; ISSN 1475-7516
Publisher:
Institute of Physics (IOP)Copyright Statement
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Citation Metrics:
Cited by: 23 works
Citation information provided by
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Search for neutrinos from decaying dark matter with IceCube text January 2018
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Asymmetric dark matter: residual annihilations and self-interactions text January 2017
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