Precision gamma-ray constraints for sub-GeV dark matter models

Coogan, Adam; Morrison, Logan; Profumo, Stefano

doi:10.1088/1475-7516/2021/08/044

Title: Precision gamma-ray constraints for sub-GeV dark matter models

Journal Article · 19 August 2021 · Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1088/1475-7516/2021/08/044 · OSTI ID:1851317

Coogan, Adam ^[1]; Morrison, Logan ^[2]; Profumo, Stefano ^[2]

University of Amsterdam (Netherlands); OSTI
University of California, Santa Cruz, CA (United States); Santa Cruz Institute for Particle Physics, Santa Cruz, CA (United States)

The indirect detection of dark matter particles with mass below the GeV scale has recently received significant attention. Future space-borne gamma-ray telescopes, including All-Sky-ASTROGAM, AMEGO, and GECCO, will probe the MeV gamma-ray sky with unprecedented precision, offering an exciting test of particle dark matter in the MeV-GeV mass range. While it is typically assumed that dark matter annihilates into only one Standard Model final state, this is not the case for realistic dark matter models. Here we analyze existing indirect detection constraints and the discovery reach of future detectors for the well-motivated Higgs and vector-portal models using our publicly-available code Hazma. In particular, we show how to leverage chiral perturbation theory to compute the dark matter self-annihilation cross sections into final states containing mesons, the strongly-interacting Standard Model dynamical degrees of freedom below the GeV scale. We find that future telescopes could probe dark matter self-annihilation cross sections orders of magnitude smaller than those presently constrained by cosmic microwave background, gamma-ray and terrestrial observations.

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Research Organization:: University of California, Santa Cruz, CA (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Science (SC)

Grant/Contract Number:: SC0010107

OSTI ID:: 1851317

Journal Information:: Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, Journal Name: Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics Journal Issue: 08 Vol. 2021; ISSN 1475-7516

Publisher:: Institute of Physics (IOP)Copyright Statement

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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