CLUES on Fermi-LAT prospects for the extragalactic detection of μνSSM gravitino dark matter
Creators
- 1. Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sez. Roma Tor Vergata, Roma (Italy)
- 2. Instituto de Física Teórica IFT-UAM/CSIC, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Cantoblanco, E-28049 Madrid (Spain)
- 3. Departamento de Física Teórica, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Cantoblanco, E-28049 Madrid (Spain)
Description
The μνSSM is a supersymmetric model that has been proposed to solve the problems generated by other supersymmetric extensions of the standard model of particle physics. Given that R-parity is broken in the μνSSM, the gravitino is a natural candidate for decaying dark matter since its lifetime becomes much longer than the age of the Universe. In this model, gravitino dark matter could be detectable through the emission of a monochromatic gamma ray in a two-body decay. We study the prospects of the Fermi-LAT telescope to detect such monochromatic lines in 5 years of observations of the most massive nearby extragalactic objects. We focus on the Virgo galaxy cluster, since it is associated to a particularly high signal-to-noise ratio and is located at high Galactic latitude. The simulation of both signal and background gamma-ray events is carried out with the Fermi Science Tools, and the dark matter distribution around Virgo is taken from an N-body simulation, with constrained initial conditions provided by the CLUES project. We find that a gravitino with a mass range of 0.6–2 GeV, and with a lifetime range of about 3×1027–2×1028s would be detectable by the Fermi-LAT with a signal-to-noise ratio larger than 3. We also obtain that gravitino masses larger than about 4 GeV are already excluded in the μνSSM by Fermi-LAT data of the galactic halo. These proceedings are based on Ref. [1]
Availability note (English)
Available from http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.nima.2012.01.051Additional details
Identifiers
- DOI
- 10.1016/j.nima.2012.01.051;
- PII
- S0168-9002(12)00100-3;
Publishing Information
- Journal Title
- Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research. Section A, Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment
- Journal Volume
- 692
- Journal Issue
- Complete
- Journal Page Range
- p. 137-141
- ISSN
- 0168-9002
- CODEN
- NIMAER
Conference
- Title
- 3. Roma international conference on astroparticle physics
- Acronym
- RICAP'11
- Dates
- 24-27 May 2011
- Place
- Rome (Italy)
INIS
- Country of Publication
- Netherlands
- Country of Input or Organization
- International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
- INIS RN
- 45020293
- Subject category
- S79: ASTROPHYSICS, COSMOLOGY AND ASTRONOMY; S46: INSTRUMENTATION RELATED TO NUCLEAR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY;
- Resource subtype / Literary indicator
- Conference
- Descriptors DEI
- DECAY; DETECTION; DISTRIBUTION; GALAXIES; GALAXY CLUSTERS; GAMMA RADIATION; GEV RANGE 01-10; LIFETIME; MASS; MONOCHROMATIC RADIATION; NONLUMINOUS MATTER; PARITY; SIGNALS; SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIO; SIMULATION; STANDARD MODEL; SUPERSYMMETRY; TELESCOPES; TWO-BODY PROBLEM; UNIVERSE
- Descriptors DEC
- DIMENSIONLESS NUMBERS; ELECTROMAGNETIC RADIATION; ENERGY RANGE; FIELD THEORIES; GEV RANGE; GRAND UNIFIED THEORY; IONIZING RADIATIONS; MANY-BODY PROBLEM; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATTER; PARTICLE MODELS; PARTICLE PROPERTIES; QUANTUM FIELD THEORY; RADIATIONS; SYMMETRY; UNIFIED GAUGE MODELS
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- Copyright
- Copyright (c) 2012 Elsevier Science B.V., Amsterdam, The Netherlands, All rights reserved.