PPPC 4 DM ID: a poor particle physicist cookbook for dark matter indirect detection
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique · Commissariat à l'Énergie Atomique et aux Énergies Alternatives · +13 more institutions
Abstract
We provide ingredients and recipes for computing signals of TeV-scale Dark Matter annihilations and decays in the Galaxy and beyond. For each DM channel, we present the energy spectra of at production, computed by high-statistics simulations. We estimate the Monte Carlo uncertainty by comparing the results yielded by the Pythia and Herwig event generators. We then provide the propagation functions for charged particles in the Galaxy, for several DM distribution profiles and sets of propagation parameters. Propagation of e ± is performed with an improved semi-analytic method that takes into account position-dependent energy losses in the Milky Way. Using such propagation functions, we compute the energy spectra…
Citation impact
- FWCI
- 61.31
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- 100%
- References
- 163
Authors
9- MCMarco CirelliCorresponding
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Commissariat à l'Énergie Atomique et aux Énergies Alternatives, CEA Paris-Saclay, Institut de Physique Théorique, European Organization for Nuclear Research
- GCGennaro Corcella
Scuola Normale Superiore, Centro Ricerche Enrico Fermi, Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Pisa
- AHAndi Hektor
National Institute of Chemical Physics and Biophysics
- GHGert Hütsi
Tartu Observatory
- MKMario Kadastik
National Institute of Chemical Physics and Biophysics
Topics & keywords
- Dark matter
- Milky Way
- Galaxy
- Spectral line
- Monte Carlo method
- Compton scattering
- Astroparticle physics
- Dark energy