Fermi Large Area Telescope Search for Photon Lines from 30 to 200 GeV and Dark Matter Implications

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作者
Abdo, A. A. [1 ,2 ]
Ackermann, M. [3 ,4 ]
Ajello, M. [3 ,4 ]
Atwood, W. B. [5 ,6 ]
Baldini, L. [7 ]
Ballet, J. [8 ]
Barbiellini, G. [9 ,10 ]
Bastieri, D. [11 ,12 ]
Bechtol, K. [3 ,4 ]
Bellazzini, R. [7 ]
Berenji, B. [3 ,4 ]
Bloom, E. D. [3 ,4 ]
Bonamente, E. [13 ,14 ]
Borgland, A. W. [3 ,4 ]
Bouvier, A. [3 ,4 ]
Bregeon, J. [7 ]
Brez, A. [7 ]
Brigida, M. [15 ,16 ,17 ]
Bruel, P. [18 ]
Burnett, T. H. [19 ]
Buson, S. [12 ]
Caliandro, G. A. [20 ]
Cameron, R. A. [3 ,4 ]
Caraveo, P. A. [21 ]
Carrigan, S. [12 ]
Casandjian, J. M. [8 ]
Cecchi, C. [13 ,14 ]
Celik, Oe. [22 ,23 ,24 ,25 ]
Chekhtman, A. [1 ,26 ]
Chiang, J. [3 ,4 ]
Ciprini, S. [14 ]
Claus, R. [3 ,4 ]
Cohen-Tanugi, J. [27 ]
Conrad, J. [28 ,29 ]
Dermer, C. D. [1 ]
de Angelis, A. [30 ,31 ]
de Palma, F. [15 ,16 ,17 ]
Digel, S. W. [3 ,4 ]
do Couto e Silva, E. [3 ,4 ]
Drell, P. S. [3 ,4 ]
Drlica-Wagner, A. [3 ,4 ]
Dubois, R. [3 ,4 ]
Dumora, D. [32 ,33 ]
Edmonds, Y. [3 ,4 ]
Essig, R. [3 ,4 ]
Farnier, C. [27 ]
Favuzzi, C. [15 ,16 ,17 ]
Fegan, S. J. [18 ]
Focke, W. B. [3 ,4 ]
Fortin, P. [18 ]
机构
[1] USN, Res Lab, Div Space Sci, Washington, DC 20375 USA
[2] Natl Acad Sci, Natl Res Council Res Associate, Washington, DC 20001 USA
[3] Stanford Univ, Dept Phys, Kavli Inst Particle Astrophys & Cosmol, WW Hansen Expt Phys Lab, Stanford, CA 94305 USA
[4] Stanford Univ, SLAC Natl Accelerator Lab, Stanford, CA 94305 USA
[5] Univ Calif Santa Cruz, Dept Phys, Santa Cruz Inst Particle Phys, Santa Cruz, CA 95064 USA
[6] Univ Calif Santa Cruz, Dept Astron & Astrophys, Santa Cruz, CA 95064 USA
[7] Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, Sez Pisa, I-56127 Pisa, Italy
[8] Univ Paris Diderot, CEA Saclay, Serv Astrophys, Lab AIM,CEA IRFU,CNRS, F-91191 Gif Sur Yvette, France
[9] Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, Sez Trieste, I-34127 Trieste, Italy
[10] Univ Trieste, Dipartmento Fis, I-34127 Trieste, Italy
[11] Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, Sez Padova, I-35131 Padua, Italy
[12] Univ Padua, Dipartimento Fis G Galilei, I-35131 Padua, Italy
[13] Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, Sez Perugia, I-06123 Perugia, Italy
[14] Univ Perugia, Dipartimento Fis, I-06123 Perugia, Italy
[15] M Merlin Univ, Dipartimento Fis, I-70126 Bari, Italy
[16] Politecn Bari, I-70126 Bari, Italy
[17] Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, Sez Bari, I-70126 Bari, Italy
[18] Ecole Polytech, CNRS, IN2P3, Lab Leprince Ringuet, Palaiseau, France
[19] Univ Washington, Dept Phys, Seattle, WA 98195 USA
[20] CSIC, IEEC, Inst Ciencies Espai, E-08003 Barcelona, Spain
[21] INAF Ist Astrofis Spaziale & Fis Cosm, I-20133 Milan, Italy
[22] NASA, Goddard Space Flight Ctr, Greenbelt, MD 20771 USA
[23] CRESST, Greenbelt, MD 20771 USA
[24] Univ Maryland Baltimore Cty, Dept Phys, Baltimore, MD 21250 USA
[25] Univ Maryland Baltimore Cty, Ctr Space Sci & Technol, Baltimore, MD 21250 USA
[26] George Mason Univ, Fairfax, VA 22030 USA
[27] Univ Montpellier 2, CNRS, IN2P3, Lab Phys Theor & Astroparticules, Montpellier, France
[28] Stockholm Univ, Dept Phys, SE-10691 Stockholm, Sweden
[29] Oskar Klein Ctr Cosmoparticle Phys, SE-10691 Stockholm, Sweden
[30] Univ Udine, Dipartimento Fis, I-33100 Udine, Italy
[31] Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, Sez Trieste, Grp Collegato Udine, I-33100 Udine, Italy
[32] Univ Bordeaux, CEN Bordeaux Gradignan, UMR 5797, F-33175 Gradignan, France
[33] CEN Bordeaux Gradignan, CNRS, IN2P3, UMR 5797, F-33175 Gradignan, France
[34] Hiroshima Univ, Dept Phys Sci, Hiroshima 7398526, Japan
[35] Sci Data Ctr, ASI, I-00044 Rome, Italy
[36] Penn State Univ, Dept Astron & Astrophys, University Pk, PA 16802 USA
[37] Univ Maryland, Dept Phys, College Pk, MD 20742 USA
[38] Univ Maryland, Dept Astron, College Pk, MD 20742 USA
[39] Max Planck Inst Radioastron, D-53121 Bonn, Germany
[40] Univ Alabama, Ctr Space Plasma & Aeron Res, Huntsville, AL 35899 USA
[41] ICREA, Barcelona, Spain
[42] Ohio State Univ, Dept Phys, Ctr Cosmol & Astroparticle Phys, Columbus, OH 43210 USA
[43] Royal Inst Technol, Dept Phys, SE-10691 Stockholm, Sweden
[44] Waseda Univ, Shinjuku Ku, Tokyo 1698050, Japan
[45] Tokyo Inst Technol, Dept Phys, Meguro, Tokyo 1528551, Japan
[46] RIKEN, Inst Phys & Chem Res, Cosm Radiat Lab, Wako, Saitama 3510198, Japan
[47] UPS, CNRS, Ctr Etud Spatiale Rayonnements, F-31028 Toulouse 4, France
[48] Sez Roma Tor Vergata, Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, I-00133 Rome, Italy
[49] Univ Denver, Dept Phys & Astron, Denver, CO 80208 USA
[50] Max Planck Inst Extraterr Phys, D-85748 Garching, Germany
基金
瑞典研究理事会; 美国国家航空航天局;
关键词
MILKY-WAY HALO; NEUTRALINO ANNIHILATION; OBSERVABILITY; QUARKONIUM; RAYS; MASS;
D O I
10.1103/PhysRevLett.104.091302
中图分类号
O4 [物理学];
学科分类号
0702 ;
摘要
Dark matter (DM) particle annihilation or decay can produce monochromatic gamma rays readily distinguishable from astrophysical sources. gamma- ray line limits from 30 to 200 GeV obtained from 11 months of Fermi Large Area Space Telescope data from 20-300 GeV are presented using a selection based on requirements for a gamma-ray line analysis, and integrated over most of the sky. We obtain gamma-ray line flux upper limits in the range 0.6-4.5 x 10(-9) cm(-2) s(-1), and give corresponding DM annihilation cross-section and decay lifetime limits. Theoretical implications are briefly discussed.
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