Remnants of dark matter clumps
- 1. Institute for Nuclear Research of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow (Russian Federation)
- 2. INFN, Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, I-67010 Assergi (AQ) (Italy)
Description
What happened to the central cores of tidally destructed dark matter clumps in the Galactic halo? We calculate the probability of surviving of the remnants of dark matter clumps in the Galaxy by modelling the tidal destruction of the small-scale clumps. It is demonstrated that a substantial fraction of clump remnants may survive through the tidal destruction during the lifetime of the Galaxy if the radius of a core is rather small. The resulting mass spectrum of surviving clumps is extended down to the mass of the core of the cosmologically produced clumps with a minimal mass. Since the annihilation signal is dominated by the dense part of the core, destruction of the outer part of the clump affects the annihilation rate relatively weakly and the survived dense remnants of tidally destructed clumps provide a large contribution to the annihilation signal in the Galaxy. The uncertainties in the minimal clump mass resulting from the uncertainties in neutralino models are discussed.
Additional details
Identifiers
- DOI
- 10.1103/PhysRevD.77.083519;
- arXiv
- arXiv:0712.3499v2;
Publishing Information
- Journal Title
- Physical Review. D, Particles Fields
- Journal Volume
- 77
- Journal Issue
- 8
- Journal Page Range
- p. 083519-083519.14
- ISSN
- 0556-2821
- CODEN
- PRVDAQ
INIS
- Country of Publication
- United States
- Country of Input or Organization
- International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
- INIS RN
- 41001343
- Subject category
- S72: PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS;
- Descriptors DEI
- ANNIHILATION; COSMOLOGY; GALAXIES; GALAXY CLUSTERS; GRAVITATION; LIFETIME; MASS; MASS SPECTRA; NONLUMINOUS MATTER; PROBABILITY; SIMULATION
- Descriptors DEC
- INTERACTIONS; MATTER; PARTICLE INTERACTIONS; SPECTRA
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- Notes
- (c) 2008 The American Physical Society