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暗物质湮灭信号:辐射校正的重要性

Dark Matter Annihilation Signals: The Importance of Radiative Corrections

Torsten Bringmann

摘要:

能够安全地区分天体物理和潜在的暗物质(DM)湮灭信号对于间接DM搜索至关重要。为此,人们必须依靠独特的-和独特的-光谱特征来寻找。内韧致辐射(IB),不可避免的带电湮灭产物的存在下,提供了这样一个签名。事实上,由于它一般占主导地位的伽马射线谱预计从DM湮灭,在高能量,它很可能是更重要的间接DM搜索比传统上寻找线信号。如在一些细节中所示,IB签名的观察甚至将允许区分不同的DM候选者或显著地约束例如中性伴子DM因此,这里报告的伽马射线贡献对已经发射的费米/GLAST卫星和即将到来的新一代空气切伦科夫望远镜系统(如CTA)非常感兴趣,这些系统在这些效应特别重要的高能量下最敏感。最后,辐射修正甚至可能显著改变DM湮灭的正电子谱; PAMELA卫星最近发现的一个有趣的正电子过剩可能是这种情况下预期的特殊谱特征的指示。

英文摘要:

Being able to safely distinguish astrophysical from potential dark matter (DM) annihilation signals is of utmost importance for indirect DM searches. To this end, one has to rely on distinctive -- and unique -- spectral signatures to look for. Internal bremsstrahlung (IB), unavoidable in the presence of charged annihilation products, provides such a signature. In fact, as it generically dominates the gamma-ray spectrum expected from DM annihilations, at high energies, it may well turn out to be more important for indirect DM searches than the traditionally looked-for line signals. As illustrated in some detail, the observation of IB signatures would even allow to distinguish between different DM candidates or to constrain significantly the parameter space of, e.g., neutralino DM. The gamma-ray contributions reported here are therefore of great interest for the already launched Fermi/GLAST satellite and the upcoming new generation of Air Cherenkov Telescope systems like CTA -- which are most sensitive at the high energies where these effects are particularly important. Finally, radiative corrections may even significantly alter the positron spectrum from DM annihilations; an intriguing positron excess recently found by the PAMELA satellite might turn out to be an indication of the peculiar spectral signature expected in that case.

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