Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Scientific paper
2011-12-18
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Proceedings of XII Taup Conference, Munich, September 2011
Scientific paper
The spectrum of an isotropic extragalactic $\gamma$-ray background (EGB) has been measured by the Fermi-LAT telescope at high latitudes. Two new models for the EGB are derived from the subtraction of unresolved point sources and extragalactic diffuse processes, which could explain from 30% to 70% of the Fermi-LAT EGB. Within the hypothesis that the two residual EGBs are entirely due to the annihilation of dark matter (DM) particles in the Galactic halo, we obtain $conservative$ upper limits on their annihilation cross section \sigmav. Severe bounds on a possible Sommerfeld enhancement of the annihilation cross section are set as well. Finally, would {\sigmav} be inversely proportional to the WIMP velocity, very severe limits are derived for the velocity-independent part of the annihilation cross section.
Calore Francesca
Donato Fiorenza
Romeri Valentina de
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