Gamma Rays from Near-Solar WIMP Annihilations

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2001-03-26

arxiv.org/abs/hep-ph/0103277v1

Physics

High Energy Physics

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

6 pages, 1 figure, submitted to Astroparticle Physics for publication

Scientific paper

If weakly-interacting massive particles (WIMPs) make up the galactic dark matter halo, high densities of such particles would exist near massive bodies, such as the sun. The resulting annihilations are believed to produce neutrinos, gamma rays and other decay products. If any significant fraction of such annihiliations occur outside of the sun itself, gamma rays may be observable by detectors on Earth. This paper describes a calculation to determine the fraction of solar-captured WIMP annihiliations which occur outside of the sun. The implications of this result on experimental searches is also discussed. We find that the prospect of detecting gamma rays from near-solar WIMP annihilations is very poor.

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