Journal
PHYSICAL REVIEW D
Volume 103, Issue 6, Pages -Publisher
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.103.063022
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Funding
- European Research Council (ERC) under the EU Seventh Framework Programme/ERC Starting Grant [FP7/2007-2013, 278234]
- CNRS 80\Prime grant (DAMEFER project)
- Departments of Excellence grant - Italian Ministry of Education, University and Research (MIUR)
- Research grant of the Universita Italo-Francese, under Bando Vinci 2020
- Research grant The Dark Universe: A Synergic Multimessenger Approach - Italian Ministry of Education, University and Research (MIUR) [2017X7X85K]
- Research grant The Anisotropic Dark Universe - Compagnia di Sanpaolo [CSTO161409]
- University of Torino
- Research grant TASP (Theoretical Astroparticle Physics) - Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN)
- Spanish Agencia Estatal de Investigacion (AEI, MICIU) [MDM-2017-0765]
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This study examines the potential of light dark matter with mass between 1 MeV and 1 GeV, comparing lower-energy x-ray data from the INTEGRAL telescope with predicted dark matter flux to derive competitive bounds. It includes the contribution from inverse Compton scattering on galactic radiation fields and the cosmic microwave background, leading to stronger constraints for dark matter masses above 20 MeV than previous studies.
Light dark matter (DM), defined here as having a mass between 1 MeV and about 1 GeV, is an interesting possibility both theoretically and phenomenologically, at one of the frontiers of current progress in the field of DM searches. Its indirect detection via gamma rays is challenged by the scarcity of experiments in the MeV- GeV region. We look therefore at lower-energy x-ray data from the INTEGRAL telescope, and compare them with the predicted DM flux. We derive bounds which arc competitive with existing ones from other techniques. Crucially, we include the contribution from inverse Compton scattering on galactic radiation fields and the cosmic microwave background, which leads to much stronger constraints than in previous studies for DM masses above 20 MeV.
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