Higgsino Dark Matter Confronts 14 years of Fermi Gamma Ray Data

Abstract

Thermal higgsino dark matter (DM), with mass around 1 TeV, is a well-motivated, minimal DM scenario that arises in supersymmetric extensions of the Standard Model. Higgsinos may naturally be the lightest superpartners in Split-supersymmetry models that decouple the scalar superpartners while keeping higgsinos and gauginos close to the TeV scale. Higgsino DM may annihilate today to give continuum gamma-ray emission at energies less than a TeV in addition to a line-like signature at energies equal to the mass. Previous searches for higgsino DM, for example with the H.E.S.S. gamma-ray telescope, have not reached the necessary sensitivity to probe the higgsino annihilation cross-section. In this work we make use of 14 years of $\text{Fermi}$ gamma-ray data at energies above $\sim$10 GeV to search for the continuum emission near the Galactic Center from higgsino annihilation. We interpret our results using DM profiles from Milky Way analogue galaxies in the FIRE-2 hydrodynamic cosmological simulations. We set the strongest constraints to-date on higgsino-like DM. Our results show a mild, $\sim$2$\sigma$ preference for higgsino DM with a mass near the thermal higgsino mass and, depending on the DM density profile, the expected cross-section.

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