Fermi LAT Search for Photon Lines from 30 to 200 GeV and Dark Matter Implications

Abstract

Dark matter (DM) particle annihilation or decay can produce monochromatic $\gamma$-rays readily distinguishable from astrophysical sources. $\gamma$-ray line limits from 30 GeV to 200 GeV obtained from 11 months of Fermi Large Area Space Telescope data from 20-300 GeV are presented using a selection based on requirements for a $\gamma$-ray line analysis, and integrated over most of the sky. We obtain $\gamma$-ray line flux upper limits in the range $0.6-4.5\times 10^{-9}{\mathrm{cm}}^{-2}{\mathrm{s}}^{-1}$, and give corresponding DM annihilation cross-section and decay lifetime limits. Theoretical implications are briefly discussed.

arXiv comment6 pages, 1 figure. Accepted for publication by The Physical Review Letters

References in corpus (24)

• A Universal Density Profile from Hierarchical Clustering
• Supersymmetric Dark Matter
• The Large Area Telescope on the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope Mission
• Observation of an anomalous positron abundance in the cosmic radiation
• Measuring Distance and Properties of the Milky Way's Central Supermassive Black Hole with Stellar Orbits
• Measurement of the Cosmic Ray e+ plus e- spectrum from 20 GeV to 1 TeV with the Fermi Large Area Telescope
• Resolving the Structure of Cold Dark Matter Halos
• The Milky Way's Circular Velocity Curve to 60 kpc and an Estimate of the Dark Matter Halo Mass from Kinematics of ~2400 SDSS Blue Horizontal Branch Stars
• Observability of Gamma Rays from Dark Matter Neutralino Annihilations in the Milky Way Halo
• The Present and Future Mass of the Milky Way Halo
• Significant Gamma Lines from Inert Higgs Dark Matter
• New Gamma-Ray Contributions to Supersymmetric Dark Matter Annihilation
• Full One-loop Calculation of Neutralino Annihilation into Two Photons
• Gamma-Ray Constraint on Galactic Positron Production by MeV Dark Matter
• Gamma Rays from Kaluza-Klein Dark Matter
• Neutralino Annihilation into a Photon and a Z boson
• The On-orbit Calibrations for the Fermi Large Area Telescope
• Neutralino Annihilation into Two Photons
• Gamma Ray Spectrum from Gravitino Dark Matter Decay
• PAMELA Satellite Data as a Signal of Non-Thermal Wino LSP Dark Matter
• Gamma Rays from Heavy Neutralino Dark Matter
• The WIMP Forest: Indirect Detection of a Chiral Square
• A clear Dark Matter gamma ray line generated by the Green-Schwarz mechanism
• Search with EGRET for a Gamma Ray Line from the Galactic Center

Cited by in corpus (145)

• The Fermi Large Area Telescope On Orbit: Event Classification, Instrument Response Functions, and Calibration
• Dark Matter Constraints from Observations of 25 Milky Way Satellite Galaxies with the Fermi Large Area Telescope
• A Tentative Gamma-Ray Line from Dark Matter Annihilation at the Fermi Large Area Telescope
• Updated Search for Spectral Lines from Galactic Dark Matter Interactions with Pass 8 Data from the Fermi Large Area Telescope
• Fermi LAT Search for Internal Bremsstrahlung Signatures from Dark Matter Annihilation
• Galactic Searches for Dark Matter
• Search for Gamma-ray Spectral Lines with the Fermi Large Area Telescope and Dark Matter Implications
• Constraints on the Galactic Halo Dark Matter from Fermi-LAT Diffuse Measurements
• Fermi LAT Search for Dark Matter in Gamma-ray Lines and the Inclusive Photon Spectrum
• Gamma Ray Signals from Dark Matter: Concepts, Status and Prospects
• Constraints on Dark Matter Annihilation in Clusters of Galaxies with the Fermi Large Area Telescope
• Constraints on Cosmological Dark Matter Annihilation from the Fermi-LAT Isotropic Diffuse Gamma-Ray Measurement
• Spread Supersymmetry
• The velocity width function of galaxies from the 40% ALFALFA survey: shedding light on the cold dark matter overabundance problem
• Status of the Inert Doublet Model and the Role of multileptons at the LHC
• Gamma-ray Constraints on Decaying Dark Matter and Implications for IceCube
• Search for Dark Matter Satellites using the FERMI-LAT
• Dark Matter and Fundamental Physics with the Cherenkov Telescope Array
• The moment of truth for WIMP Dark Matter
• The diphoton resonance as a gravity mediator of dark matter
• Gamma Ray Line Constraints on Effective Theories of Dark Matter
• Constraining Very Heavy Dark Matter Using Diffuse Backgrounds of Neutrinos and Cascaded Gamma Rays
• Fermi 130 GeV gamma-ray excess and dark matter annihilation in sub-haloes and in the Galactic centre
• Indirect Searches for Decaying Dark Matter
• Complex Scalar Dark Matter vis-à-vis CoGeNT, DAMA/LIBRA and XENON100
• Probing Dark Matter Decay and Annihilation with Fermi LAT Observations of Nearby Galaxy Clusters
• Singlet Scalar Dark Matter: monochromatic gamma rays and metastable vacua
• Indirect Detection of Dark Matter Using MeV-Range Gamma-Ray Telescopes
• Constraints on Decaying Dark Matter from Fermi Observations of Nearby Galaxies and Clusters
• Higgs in Space!
• Gravitational effects of condensate dark matter on compact stellar objects
• Light Magnetic Dark Matter in Direct Detection Searches
• Singlet Fermionic Dark Matter and the Electroweak Phase Transition
• Two-loop radiative seesaw with multicomponent dark matter explaining the possible gamma excess in the Higgs boson decay and at the Fermi LAT
• Hunting Dark Matter Gamma-Ray Lines with the Fermi LAT
• Search for 100 MeV to 10 GeV gamma-ray lines in the Fermi-LAT data and implications for gravitino dark matter in the $\mu \nu$SSM
• Is the 130 GeV Line Real? A Search for Systematics in the Fermi-LAT Data
• Two Lines or Not Two Lines? That is the Question of Gamma Ray Spectra
• Cosmological constraints on dark matter models with velocity-dependent annihilation cross section
• Decaying vs Annihilating Dark Matter in Light of a Tentative Gamma-Ray Line
• Antiproton constraints on dark matter annihilations from internal electroweak bremsstrahlung
• Constraining Minimal $U(1{)}_{B-L}$ model from Dark Matter Observations
• Investigating Gamma-Ray Lines from Dark Matter with Future Observatories
• Indirect Dark Matter Detection Limits from the Ultra-Faint Milky Way Satellite Segue 1
• On the Relevance of Sharp Gamma-Ray Features for Indirect Dark Matter Searches
• The Impact of Recent Advances in Laboratory Astrophysics on our Understanding of the Cosmos
• Internal bremsstrahlung signatures in light of direct dark matter searches
• A 130 GeV photon line from dark matter annihilation in the NMSSM
• Fermi Gamma Ray Line at 130 GeV from Axion-Mediated Dark Matter
• Illuminating the 130 GeV Gamma Line with Continuum Photons
• Complementarity of direct dark matter detection and indirect detection through gamma-rays
• Dark matter substructure modelling and sensitivity of the Cherenkov Telescope Array to Galactic dark halos
• WIMP searches with gamma rays in the Fermi era: challenges, methods and results
• Search for a gamma-ray line feature from a group of nearby Galaxy clusters with Fermi LAT Pass 8 data
• Low Mass Gluino within the Sparticle Landscape, Implications for Dark Matter, and Early Discovery Prospects at LHC-7
• Dark Matter Indirect Signatures
• Bayesian Implications of Current LHC Supersymmetry and Dark Matter Detection Searches for the Constrained MSSM
• Constraining Dark Matter lifetime with a deep gamma-ray survey of the Perseus Galaxy Cluster with MAGIC
• Very light right-handed sneutrino dark matter in the NMSSM
• Search for Gamma-Ray Lines towards Galaxy Clusters with the Fermi-LAT
• Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope: High-Energy Results from the First Year
• Search for gamma-ray spectral lines with the DArk Matter Particle Explorer
• Gravity-mediated (or Composite) Dark Matter Confronts Astrophysical Data
• Annihilation vs. Decay: Constraining dark matter properties from a gamma-ray detection
• Gamma-ray Lines in the Fermi Data: is it a Bubble?
• Galaxy Clusters as Reservoirs of Heavy Dark Matter and High-Energy Cosmic Rays: Constraints from Neutrino Observations
• Gravitino dark matter and neutrino masses with bilinear R-parity violation
• Perspective of monochromatic gamma-ray line detection with the High Energy cosmic-Radiation Detection (HERD) facility onboard China's Space Station
• 130 GeV Fermi gamma-ray line from dark matter decay
• Gamma-Ray Lines from Radiative Dark Matter Decay
• Dark Matter as a Guide Toward a Light Gluino at the LHC
• Neutrinos in IceCube/KM3NeT as probes of Dark Matter Substructures in Galaxy Clusters
• Indirect detection of gravitino dark matter including its three-body decays
• Disentangling Instrumental Features of the 130 GeV Fermi Line
• Optimized analysis method for indirect dark matter searches with Imaging Air Cherenkov Telescopes
• CLUES on Fermi-LAT prospects for the extragalactic detection of munuSSM gravitino Dark Matter
• Gamma Ray Lines from a Universal Extra Dimension
• Broken R-Parity in the Sky and at the LHC
• Constraint on the velocity dependent dark matter annihilation cross section from Fermi-LAT observations of dwarf galaxies
• On the sensitivity of CTA to gamma-ray boxes from multi-TeV dark matter
• The 130 GeV Fingerprint of Right-Handed Neutrino Dark Matter
• Magnetic Fluffy Dark Matter
• Strong Optimized Conservative Fermi-LAT Constraints on Dark Matter Models from the Inclusive Photon Spectrum
• Gamma rays from the Galactic Centre region: a review
• Axion-mediated dark matter and Higgs diphoton signal
• The Quest for Supersymmetry: Early LHC Results versus Direct and Indirect Neutralino Dark Matter Searches
• Quasi-stable neutralinos at the LHC
• Inert Doublet Dark Matter and Mirror/Extra Families after Xenon100
• Interplay between Fermi gamma-ray lines and collider searches
• Loop-induced photon spectral lines from neutralino annihilation in the NMSSM
• Constraints on the dark matter annihilation from Fermi-LAT observation of M31
• A Search for Dark Matter Lines at the Galactic Center with 14 Years of Fermi Data
• Gravitino Dark Matter and Neutrino Masses in Partial Split Supersymmetry
• Constraint on the velocity dependent dark matter annihilation cross section from gamma-ray and kinematic observations of ultrafaint dwarf galaxies
• Dipole-interacting Fermionic Dark Matter in positron, antiproton, and gamma-ray channels
• Dark Matter decay and annihilation in the Local Universe: CLUES from Fermi
• Indirect Detection of WIMP Dark Matter: a compact review
• Prospects for indirect MeV Dark Matter detection with Gamma Rays in light of Cosmic Microwave Background Constraints
• Electroweak Baryogenesis And The Fermi Gamma-Ray Line
• Galactic-Centre Gamma Rays in CMSSM Dark Matter Scenarios
• Annihilation of singlet fermionic dark matter into two photons
• New decay modes of gravitino dark matter
• Search for dark matter signals with Fermi-LAT observation of globular clusters NGC 6388 and M 15
• Dark Matter Line Searches with the Cherenkov Telescope Array
• Lower Limits on the Strengths of Gamma Ray Lines from WIMP Dark Matter Annihilation
• Unstable Gravitino Dark Matter - Prospects for Indirect and Direct Detection
• Is it possible to discover a dark matter particle with an accelerator?
• A decade of dark matter searches with ground-based Cherenkov telescopes
• Long-Lived stop at the LHC with or without R-parity
• Prospect for dark matter signatures from dwarf galaxies by LHAASO
• On the origin of the gamma-ray emission from Omega Centauri: Milisecond pulsars and dark matter annihilation
• Goldstone Fermion Dark Matter
• Search for gamma-ray line features from Milky Way satellites with Fermi-LAT Pass 8 data
• Search for gamma-ray line signals around the black hole at the galactic center with DAMPE observation
• Higgsino dark matter model consistent with galactic cosmic ray data and possibility of discovery at LHC-7
• Searching Accretion-Enhanced Dark Matter Annihilation Signals in the Galactic Centre
• Cosmic Ray Anomalies from the MSSM?
• Searching for Spurious Solar and Sky Lines in the Fermi-LAT Spectrum
• Searching for Dark Matter Signals from Local Dwarf Spheroidal Galaxies at Low Radio Frequencies in the GLEAM Survey
• Dark Matter Detection with Hard X-ray Telescopes
• Diphoton resonance confronts dark matter
• Searching for Gamma-Ray Emission from Reticulum II by Fermi-LAT
• Search for line-like and box-shaped spectral features from nearby galaxy clusters with 11.4 years of Fermi LAT data
• Search for the gamma-ray spectral lines with the DAMPE and the Fermi-LAT observations
• Search for line signal candidates in the Fermi-LAT data
• Gravitino Dark Matter in Tree Level Gauge Mediation with and without R-parity
• The Inert Doublet Model and its Phenomenology
• Dynamical Matter-Parity Breaking and Gravitino Dark Matter
• A decaying neutralino as dark matter and its gamma ray spectrum
• Two-photon annihilation of singlet cold dark matters due to noncommutative space-time
• Searches for Particle Dark Matter with gamma-rays
• Where are the Fermi Lines Coming From?
• Cosmic ray backgrounds for dark matter indirect detection
• Dark matter from dynamical SUSY breaking
• Saas-Fee Lecture Notes: Multi-messenger Astronomy and Dark Matter
• Gamma-ray lines constraints in the NMSSM
• Probing the Dark Matter Capture Rate in a Local Population of Brown Dwarfs with IceCube Gen 2
• Indirect detection of Dark matter with gamma-rays - status and perspectives
• Spherical harmonics analysis of Fermi gamma-ray data and the Galactic dark matter halo
• Kinetically-Enhanced Anomaly Mediation
• Fundamental physics in space with the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope
• Well-Mixed Dark Matter and the Higgs
• Indirect searches for dark matter with the Fermi LAT instrument
• Spectral cutoffs in indirect dark matter searches
• Axion-like Particle Search with a Light-Shining-Through-Walls Setup at a $\gamma$-$\gamma$ Collider