Physics
Scientific paper
Jan 2010
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2010jphcs.203a2047b&link_type=abstract
Journal of Physics: Conference Series, Volume 203, Issue 1, pp. 012047 (2010).
Physics
Scientific paper
We discuss the possibility to observe the products of dark matter annihilation that was going on in the early Universe. Of all the particles that could be generated by this process we consider only photons, as they are both uncharged and easily detectable. The earlier the Universe was, the higher the dark matter concentration n and the annihilation rate (proportional to n2) were. However, the emission from the very early Universe cannot reach us because of the opacity. The main part of the signal was generated at the moment the Universe had just become transparent for the photons produced by the annihilation. Thus, the dark matter annihilation in the early Universe should have created a sort of relic emission. We obtain its flux and the spectrum.
In the second part of the article we consider in greater detail the instance the dark matter is constituted by Weakly Interacting Massive Particles (WIMPs), which is one of the most popular hypotheses. It is shown that in this case we may expect an extragalactic gamma-ray signal in the energy range 0.5 - 20 MeV with a maximum near 8 MeV and there is evidence that an experimentally observed excess in the gamma-ray background at 0.5 - 20 MeV is created by the relic WIMP annihilation.
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