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寻找费米-LAT γ射线中暗物质信号的新方法

A New Approach to Searching for Dark Matter Signals in Fermi-LAT Gamma Rays

Spencer Chang, Lisa Goodenough

摘要:

几个宇宙射线实验已经测量了电子和正电子的过剩,相对于标准背景,能量从~ 10 GeV - 1 TeV。这些过剩可能是由于新的天体物理来源,但电子和正电子是暗物质湮灭或衰变产物的解释也是一致的。幸运的是,费米-LAT扩散伽马射线测量可以进一步检验这些模型,因为电子和正电子在星际介质中相互作用时会产生伽马射线。虽然暗物质伽马射线信号与当地的电子和正电子测量一致,应该是相当大的,因为我们审查,有大量的不确定性在建模的扩散背景,此外,实验的不确定性,使它很难声称一个暗物质的发现。在本文中,我们介绍了另一种方法来理解漫射伽马射线谱,我们在每个能量箱的两个不同的天空区域的强度比,从而消除常见的系统的不确定性。对于许多光谱,这个比率很好地符合能量中有一个突变的幂律。两个测量的指数是候选模型之间的一个强大的判别,我们证明了暗物质湮灭的情况下,可以预测指数值,需要“极端”的参数背景只解释。

英文摘要:

Several cosmic ray experiments have measured excesses in electrons and positrons, relative to standard backgrounds, for energies from ~ 10 GeV - 1 TeV. These excesses could be due to new astrophysical sources, but an explanation in which the electrons and positrons are dark matter annihilation or decay products is also consistent. Fortunately, the Fermi-LAT diffuse gamma ray measurements can further test these models, since the electrons and positrons produce gamma rays in their interactions in the interstellar medium. Although the dark matter gamma ray signal consistent with the local electron and positron measurements should be quite large, as we review, there are substantial uncertainties in the modeling of diffuse backgrounds and, additionally, experimental uncertainties that make it difficult to claim a dark matter discovery. In this paper, we introduce an alternative method for understanding the diffuse gamma ray spectrum in which we take the intensity ratio in each energy bin of two different regions of the sky, thereby canceling common systematic uncertainties. For many spectra, this ratio fits well to a power law with a single break in energy. The two measured exponent indices are a robust discriminant between candidate models, and we demonstrate that dark matter annihilation scenarios can predict index values that require "extreme" parameters for background-only explanations.

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