14–17 Jun 2011
DESY
Europe/Berlin timezone

Constraints from electroweak bremsstrahlung and prospects for gamma ray detection

17 Jun 2011, 15:15
12m
Lecture Hall (Building 61)

Lecture Hall

Building 61

Speaker

Mr Stefan Vogl (Technische Universitaet Muenchen)

Description

It is well known that the annihilation of Majorana dark matter particles into light leptons can be significantly enhanced by electromagnetic bremsstrahlung processes, which give rise to potentially observable signal in gamma-rays. Due to the gauge invariance, this mechanism inevitably leads to electroweak bremsstrahlung processes, which in turn lead to the production of antiprotons even when the leading order hadronic annihilation channels are forbidden. We investigate the constraints on the electroweak bremsstrahlung processes from the present measurements of the antiproton-to-proton fraction and we discuss the prospects to observe a gamma-signal in view of the antiproton constraints.

Primary author

Mr Stefan Vogl (Technische Universitaet Muenchen)

Co-author

Prof. Alejandro Ibarra (Technische Universitaet Muenchen)

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