Speakers
Mr
Martin Vollmann
(PhD student)Dr
Masaki Asano
(Post-doc)
Description
An analysis of the Fermi gamma ray space telescope data has recently revealed a resolved gamma-ray feature close to the galactic center which is consistent with monochromatic photons at an energy of about 130 GeV. If interpreted in terms of dark matter (DM) annihilating into gamma gamma (gamma Z,gamma H), this would correspond to a DM article mass of roughly 130 GeV (145 GeV, 155 GeV). The rate for these loop-suppressed processes, however, is larger than typically expected for thermally produced DM. Correspondingly, one would generically expect even larger tree level production rates of standard model fermions or gauge bosons. Here, we quantify this expectation in a rather model-independent way by relating the tree level and loop amplitudes with the help of the optical theorem. As an application, we consider bounds from continuum gamma rays, radio and antiproton data on the tree level amplitudes and translate them into constraints on the loop amplitudes. We find that, independently of the DM production mechanism, any DM model aiming at explaining the line signal in terms of charged standard model particles running in the loop is in strong tension with at least one of these constraints.
Primary authors
Prof.
Guenter Sigl
(Professor)
Mr
Martin Vollmann
(PhD student)
Dr
Masaki Asano
(Post-doc)
Dr
Torsten Bringmann
(Marie Curie young resarch leader)
