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Perspective on dark matter annihilation limits from the LHAASO gamma-ray observation of dwarf Spheroidal galaxies

Authors :
Peng-Fei Yin
Su-Jie Lin
Xiao-Jun Bi
Source :
Proceedings of 36th International Cosmic Ray Conference — PoS(ICRC2019).
Publication Year :
2019
Publisher :
Sissa Medialab, 2019.

Abstract

The Large High Altitude Air Shower Observatory (LHAASO) is a next generation observatory for high energy gamma-rays and cosmic rays with a wide field of view, which is sensitive to gamma-rays from 300 GeV to 1 PeV. LHAASO is an ideal experiment to explore the gamma-ray signatures induced by annihilation of heavy dark matter(DM) particles in dwarf spheroidal satellite galaxies(dSphs). In this study, we investigate the LHAASO sensitivity to the DM annihilation at DM masses above 1TeV. We consider nineteen dSphs with large J−factors and incorporate the statistical uncertainties of the J−factor in a combined analysis. Comparing with current limits, we find that LHAASO is sensitive to the annihilation signatures for DM masses from several TeV up to 100 TeV.

Details

Database :
OpenAIRE
Journal :
Proceedings of 36th International Cosmic Ray Conference — PoS(ICRC2019)
Accession number :
edsair.doi...........78cad9ad8617bdd7de38dc6c3d53b989
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.22323/1.358.0509