Diffuse gamma ray constraints on annihilating or decaying Dark Matter after Fermi

Marco Cirelli (1, 2) , Paolo Panci (3, 4, 5) , Pasquale D. Serpico (2, 6)

1 IPHT - Institut de Physique Théorique - UMR CNRS 3681
2 CERN - European Organization for Nuclear Research
3 LNGS - Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso
4 Dipartimento di Fisica [L'Aquila]
5 UPD7 - Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7
6 LAPTH - Laboratoire d'Annecy-le-Vieux de Physique Théorique

We consider the diffuse gamma ray data from FERMI first year observations and compare them to the gamma ray fluxes predicted by Dark Matter annihilation or decay (both from prompt emission and from Inverse Compton Scattering), for different observation regions of the sky and a range of Dark Matter masses, annihilation/decay channels and Dark Matter galactic profiles. We find that the data exclude large regions of the Dark Matter parameter space not constrained otherwise and discuss possible directions for future improvements. Also, we further constrain Dark Matter interpretations of the e+e- PAMELA/FERMI spectral anomalies, both for the annihilating and the decaying Dark Matter case: under very conservative assumptions, only models producing dominantly mu+mu- and assuming a cored Dark Matter galactic profile can fit the lepton data with masses around 2 TeV.

Domaines: Phénomènes cosmiques de haute energie [astro-ph.HE]; Phénomènes cosmiques de haute energie [astro-ph.HE]; Physique des Hautes Energies - Phénoménologie [hep-ph]

Marco Cirelli, Paolo Panci, Pasquale D. Serpico. Diffuse gamma ray constraints on annihilating or decaying Dark Matter after Fermi. Nuclear Physics B, 2010, 840 (1-2), pp.284-303. ⟨10.1016/j.nuclphysb.2010.07.010⟩. ⟨hal-00705336⟩