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Searching accretion-enhanced dark matter annihilation signals in the Galactic Centre

Meiwen Yang, Zhiqi Guo, Xiao-Yi Luo, Zhao-Qiang Shen, Zi-Qing Xia, Chih-Ting Lu, Yue-Lin Sming Tsai, Yi-Zhong Fan

2024Journal of High Energy Physics11 citationsDOIOpen Access PDF

Abstract

A bstract This study reanalyzes the detection prospects of dark matter (DM) annihilation signals in the Galactic Center, focusing on velocity-dependent dynamics within a spike density near the supermassive black hole (Sgr A ⋆ ). We investigate three annihilation processes — p -wave, resonance, and forbidden annihilation — under semi-relativistic velocities, leveraging gamma-ray data from Fermi and DAMPE telescopes. Our analysis integrates a fermionic DM model with an electroweak axion-like particle (ALP) portal, exploring annihilation into two or four photons. Employing a comprehensive six-dimensional integration, we precisely calculate DM-induced gamma-ray fluxes near Sgr A ⋆ , incorporating velocity and positional dependencies in the annihilation cross-section and photon yield spectra. Our findings highlight scenarios of resonance and forbidden annihilation, where the larger ALP-DM-DM coupling constant C aχχ can affect spike density, potentially yielding detectable gamma-ray line spectra within Fermi and DAMPE energy resolution. We set upper limits for C aχχ across these scenarios, offering insights into the detectability and spectral characteristics of DM annihilation signals from the Galactic Center.

Topics & Concepts

PhysicsDark matterAnnihilationAstrophysicsLight dark matterMixed dark matterAccretion (finance)Scalar field dark matterAstronomyHot dark matterParticle physicsCosmologyDark energyDark Matter and Cosmic PhenomenaAstrophysics and Cosmic PhenomenaParticle Detector Development and Performance
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