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星系际气体再电离和加热对暗物质湮灭的限制

Constraints on Dark Matter annihilations from reionization and heating of the intergalactic gas

Marco Cirelli, Fabio Iocco, Paolo Panci

摘要:

暗物质湮灭在重组后和结构形成时期将能量沉积在原始星系际介质中,产生再电离和加热。我们调查的约束,所施加的观测到的宇宙的光学深度和测量的星系际气体的温度。我们发现,边界是显着的,并有权力排除大部分的“DM质量/截面”参数空间。光学深度边界一般较强,并不依赖于结构形成的历史显着。在某些情况下,对于小质量或强子湮灭通道,温度约束可能是有竞争力的(并且受到结构形成细节的影响)。我们发现,特别是DM粒子与轻子和几个TeV的质量,如那些需要解释PAMELA和费米+HESS宇宙射线的暗物质方面的过剩,一个大的湮灭截面被排除在外,因为它们产生太多的自由电子。我们还发现,低质量粒子(<~ 10 GeV)往往会对气体加热过多,因此不受欢迎。

英文摘要:

Dark Matter annihilations after recombination and during the epoch of structure formation deposit energy in the primordial intergalactic medium, producing reionization and heating. We investigate the constraints that are imposed by the observed optical depth of the Universe and the measured temperature of the intergalactic gas. We find that the bounds are significant, and have the power to rule out large portions of the `DM mass/cross section' parameter space. The optical depth bound is generally stronger and does not depend significantly on the history of structure formation. The temperature bound can be competitive in some cases for small masses or the hadronic annihilation channels (and is affected somewhat by the details of structure formation). We find in particular that DM particles with a large annihilation cross section into leptons and a few TeV mass, such as those needed to explain the PAMELA and FERMI+HESS cosmic ray excesses in terms of Dark Matter, are ruled out as they produce too many free electrons. We also find that low mass particles (<~ 10 GeV) tend to heat too much the gas and are therefore disfavored.

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