Gamma-ray and neutrino fluxes from Heavy Dark Matter in the Galactic Center


Autoria(s): Gammaldi, Viviana; Ruiz Cembranos, José Alberto; Cruz Dombriz, Álvaro de la; Lineros, Roberto A.; Maroto, A. L.
Data(s)

2015

Resumo

We present a study of the Galactic Center region as a possible source of both secondary gamma-ray and neutrino fluxes from annihilating dark matter. We have studied the gamma-ray flux observed by the High Energy Stereoscopic System (HESS) from the J1745-290 Galactic Center source. The data are well fitted as annihilating dark matter in combination with an astrophysical background. The analysis was performed by means of simulated gamma spectra produced by Monte Carlo event generators packages. We analyze the differences in the spectra obtained by the various Monte Carlo codes developed so far in particle physics. We show that, within some uncertainty, the HESS data can be fitted as a signal from a heavy dark matter density distribution peaked at the Galactic Center, with a power-law for the background with a spectral index which is compatible with the Fermi-Large Area Telescope (LAT) data from the same region. If this kind of dark matter distribution generates the gamma-ray flux observed by HESS, we also expect to observe a neutrino flux. We show prospective results for the observation of secondary neutrinos with the Astronomy with a Neutrino Telescope and Abyss environmental RESearch project (ANTARES), Ice Cube Neutrino Observatory (Ice Cube) and the Cubic Kilometer Neutrino Telescope (KM3NeT). Prospects solely depend on the device resolution angle when its effective area and the minimum energy threshold are fixed.

Formato

application/pdf

Identificador

http://eprints.ucm.es/39232/1/Cembranos%2CJAR57libre%20%2B%20CC.pdf

Idioma(s)

en

Publicador

Elsevier

Relação

http://eprints.ucm.es/39232/

http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.phpro.2014.12.082

10.1016/j.phpro.2014.12.082

FPA2011-27853-C02-01

FIS2011-23000

G/640/400/8000

CSD2009-00064

Direitos

cc_by_nc_nd

info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess

Palavras-Chave #Física
Tipo

info:eu-repo/semantics/article

PeerReviewed