Constraints on cosmological dark matter annihilation from the Fermi-LAT isotropic diffuse gamma-ray measurement

A.A. Abdo; Markus Ackermann; Marco Ajello; Luca Baldini; Jean Ballet; Guido Barbiellini; D. Bastieri; K. Bechtol; R. Bellazzini; B. Berenji; R.D. Blandford; E.D. Bloom; E. Bonamente; A.W. Borgland; A. Bouvier; J. Bregeon; A. Brez; M. Brigida; Pascal Bruel; T.H. Burnett; S. Buson; G.A. Caliandro; R.A. Cameron; P. A. Caraveo; S. Carrigan; J.M. Casandjian; C. Cecchi; Ö. Çelik; A. Chekhtman; C.C. Cheung; J. Chiang; S. Ciprini; R. Claus; J. Cohen-Tanugi; J. Conrad; S. Cutini; C.D. Dermer; A. de Angelis; F. de Palma L; S.W. Digel; E. Do Couto E Silva; P.S. Drell; R. Dubois; D. Dumora; Y. Edmonds; C. Farnier; C. Favuzzi; S.J. Fegan; W.B. Focke; P. Fortin; M. Frailis; Y. Fukazawa; P. Fusco; F. Gargano; D. Gasparrini; N. Gehrels; S. Germani; N. Giglietto; F. Giordano; T. Glanzman; G. Godfrey; J.E. Grove; L. Guillemot; S. Guiriec; M. Gustafsson; D. Hadasch; A.K. Harding; D. Horan; R.E. Hughes; A.S. Johnson; W.N. Johnson; T. Kamae; H. Katagiri; J. Kataoka; N. Kawai; M. Kerr; Jürgen Knödlseder; M. Kuss; J. Lande; L. Latronico; M. Llena Garde; F. Longo; F. Loparco; B. Lott; M.N. Lovellette; P. Lubrano; A. Makeev; M.N. Mazziotta; J.E. Mcenery; C. Meurer; P.F. Michelson; W. Mitthumsiri; T. Mizuno; C. Monte; M.E. Monzani; A. Morselli; I.V. Moskalenko; S. Murgia; P.L. Nolan; J.P. Norris; E. Nuss; T. Ohsugi; N. Omodei; E. Orlando; J.F. Ormes; D. Paneque; J.H. Panetta; D. Parent; V. Pelassa; M. Pepe; M. Pesce-Rollins; F. Piron; S. Rainò; R. Rando; A. Reimer; O. Reimer; T. Reposeur; A.Y. Rodriguez; M. Roth; H.F.-W. Sadrozinski At; A. Sander; P.M. Saz Parkinson; J.D. Scargle; A. Sellerholm; C. Sgrò; E.J. Siskind; P.D. Smith; G. Spandre; P. Spinelli; Jean-Luc Starck; M.S. Strickman; D.J. Suson; H. Takahashi; T. Tanaka; J.B. Thayer; J.G. Thayer; D.F. Torres; Y. Uchiyama; T.L. Usher; V. Vasileiou; N. Vilchez; V. Vitale; A.P. Waite; P. Wang; B.L. Winer; K.S. Wood; T. Ylinen; G. Zaharijas; M. Ziegler

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Constraints on cosmological dark matter annihilation from the Fermi-LAT isotropic diffuse gamma-ray measurement

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Constraints on cosmological dark matter annihilation from the Fermi-LAT isotropic diffuse gamma-ray measurement

A.A. Abdo, Markus Ackermann, Marco Ajello, Luca Baldini, Jean Ballet, Guido Barbiellini, D. Bastieri, K. Bechtol, R. Bellazzini, B. Berenji, …

Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, Vol.2010

04/2010

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1088/1475-7516/2010/04/014

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The first published Fermi large area telescope (Fermi-LAT) measurement of the isotropic diffuse gamma-ray emission is in good agreement with a single power law, and is not showing any signature of a dominant contribution from dark matter sources in the energy range from 20 to 100 GeV. We use the absolute size and spectral shape of this measured flux to derive cross section limits on three types of generic dark matter candidates: annihilating into quarks, charged leptons and monochromatic photons. Predicted gamma-ray fluxes from annihilating dark matter are strongly affected by the underlying distribution of dark matter, and by using different available results of matter structure formation we assess these uncertainties. We also quantify how the dark matter constraints depend on the assumed conventional backgrounds and on the Universe's transparency to high-energy gamma-rays. In reasonable background and dark matter structure scenarios (but not in all scenarios we consider) it is possible to exclude models proposed to explain the excess of electrons and positrons measured by the Fermi-LAT and PAMELA experiments. Derived limits also start to probe cross sections expected from thermally produced relics (e.g. in minimal supersymmetry models) annihilating predominantly into quarks. For the monochromatic gamma-ray signature, the current measurement constrains only dark matter scenarios with very strong signals.

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Title: Constraints on cosmological dark matter annihilation from the Fermi-LAT isotropic diffuse gamma-ray measurement
Creators - without role: A.A. Abdo - United States Naval Research Laboratory
Markus Ackermann - Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology
Marco Ajello - Stanford University
Luca Baldini - Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Pisa
Jean Ballet - Astrophysique, Instrumentation et Modélisation
Guido Barbiellini - University of Trieste
D. Bastieri - University of Padua
K. Bechtol - Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology
R. Bellazzini - Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Pisa
B. Berenji - Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology
R.D. Blandford - Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology
E.D. Bloom - Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology
E. Bonamente - University of Perugia
A.W. Borgland - Stanford University
A. Bouvier - Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology
J. Bregeon - Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Pisa
A. Brez - Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Pisa
M. Brigida - Polytechnic University of Bari
Pascal Bruel - École Polytechnique
T.H. Burnett - University of Washington
S. Buson - Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Padova
G.A. Caliandro - Institute of Space Sciences
R.A. Cameron - Stanford University
P. A. Caraveo - Istituto di Astrofisica Spaziale e Fisica Cosmica di Milano
S. Carrigan - University of Padua
J.M. Casandjian - Université Paris Cité
C. Cecchi - University of Perugia
Ö. Çelik - Goddard Space Flight Center
A. Chekhtman - George Mason University
C.C. Cheung - United States Naval Research Laboratory
J. Chiang - Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology
S. Ciprini - University of Perugia
R. Claus - Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology
J. Cohen-Tanugi - Laboratoire de Physique Théorique
J. Conrad - Stockholm University
S. Cutini - Agenzia Spaziale Italiana
C.D. Dermer - United States Naval Research Laboratory
A. de Angelis - Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Trieste
F. de Palma L
S.W. Digel - Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology
E. Do Couto E Silva
P.S. Drell - Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology
R. Dubois - Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology
D. Dumora - Laboratoire de Physique des deux infinis Bordeaux
Y. Edmonds - Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology
C. Farnier - Laboratoire de Physique Théorique
C. Favuzzi - Polytechnic University of Bari
S.J. Fegan - École Polytechnique
W.B. Focke - Stanford University
P. Fortin - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
M. Frailis - Trieste Astronomical Observatory
Y. Fukazawa - Hiroshima University
P. Fusco - Polytechnic University of Bari
F. Gargano - Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Bari
D. Gasparrini - Agenzia Spaziale Italiana
N. Gehrels - Goddard Space Flight Center
S. Germani - University of Perugia
N. Giglietto - Polytechnic University of Bari
F. Giordano - Polytechnic University of Bari
T. Glanzman - Stanford University
G. Godfrey - Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology
J.E. Grove - United States Naval Research Laboratory
L. Guillemot - Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy
S. Guiriec - University of Alabama in Huntsville
M. Gustafsson - Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Padova
D. Hadasch - Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats
A.K. Harding - Goddard Space Flight Center
D. Horan - Laboratoire Leprince-Ringuet
R.E. Hughes - The Ohio State University
A.S. Johnson - Stanford University
W.N. Johnson - United States Naval Research Laboratory
T. Kamae - Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology
H. Katagiri - Hiroshima University
J. Kataoka - Waseda University
N. Kawai - RIKEN
M. Kerr - University of Washington
Jürgen Knödlseder - Centre National d'Études Spatiales
M. Kuss - Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Pisa
J. Lande - Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology
L. Latronico - Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Pisa
M. Llena Garde
F. Longo - University of Trieste
F. Loparco - Polytechnic University of Bari
B. Lott - Laboratoire de Physique des deux infinis Bordeaux
M.N. Lovellette - United States Naval Research Laboratory
P. Lubrano - University of Perugia
A. Makeev - United States Naval Research Laboratory
M.N. Mazziotta - Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Bari
J.E. Mcenery - University of Maryland, College Park
C. Meurer - AlbaNova
P.F. Michelson - Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology
W. Mitthumsiri - Stanford University
T. Mizuno - Hiroshima University
C. Monte - Polytechnic University of Bari
M.E. Monzani - Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology
A. Morselli - Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Roma Tor Vergata
I.V. Moskalenko - Stanford University
S. Murgia - SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
P.L. Nolan - Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology
J.P. Norris - University of Denver
E. Nuss - Laboratoire de Physique Théorique
T. Ohsugi - Hiroshima University
N. Omodei - Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Pisa
E. Orlando - Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics
J.F. Ormes - University of Denver
D. Paneque - Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology
J.H. Panetta - Stanford University
D. Parent - United States Naval Research Laboratory
V. Pelassa - Laboratoire de Physique Théorique
M. Pepe - University of Perugia
M. Pesce-Rollins - Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Pisa
F. Piron - Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules
S. Rainò - Polytechnic University of Bari
R. Rando - Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Padova
A. Reimer - Universität Innsbruck
O. Reimer - Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology
T. Reposeur - Laboratoire de Physique des deux infinis Bordeaux
A.Y. Rodriguez - Institute of Space Sciences
M. Roth - University of Washington
H.F.-W. Sadrozinski At
A. Sander - The Ohio State University
P.M. Saz Parkinson
J.D. Scargle - Ames Research Center
A. Sellerholm - Fraunhofer Chalmers Research Centre for Industrial Mathematics
C. Sgrò - Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Pisa
E.J. Siskind - Real Time Tomography
P.D. Smith - The Ohio State University
G. Spandre - Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Pisa
P. Spinelli - Polytechnic University of Bari
Jean-Luc Starck - Astrophysique Interprétation Modélisation
M.S. Strickman - United States Naval Research Laboratory
D.J. Suson - Purdue University Northwest
H. Takahashi - Hiroshima University
T. Tanaka - Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology
J.B. Thayer - Stanford University
J.G. Thayer - Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology
D.F. Torres - Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats
Y. Uchiyama - Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology
T.L. Usher - Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology
V. Vasileiou - University of Maryland, Baltimore County
N. Vilchez - Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier
V. Vitale - University of Rome Tor Vergata
A.P. Waite - Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology
P. Wang - SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
B.L. Winer - The Ohio State University
K.S. Wood - United States Naval Research Laboratory
T. Ylinen - Fraunhofer Chalmers Research Centre for Industrial Mathematics
G. Zaharijas - AlbaNova
M. Ziegler - University of California, Santa Cruz
Publication Details: Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, Vol.2010
Identifiers: 9940388409311
Academic Unit: Université de Montpellier
Language: English
Resource Type: Journal article
Local Fields: in2p3-00488230