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Searches for gamma-ray lines and 'pure WIMP' spectra from Dark Matter annihilations in dwarf galaxies with HESS
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posted on 2019-02-22, 13:57 authored by H Abdalla, F Aharonian, FA Benkhali, EO Anguner, M Arakawa, C Arcaro, C Armand, M Arrieta, M Backes, M Barnard, Y Becherini, JB Tjus, D Berge, S Bernhard, K Bernloehr, R Blackwell, M Bottcher, C Boisson, J Bolmont, S Bonnefoy, P Bordas, J Bregeon, F Brun, P Brun, M Bryan, M Buechele, T Bulik, T Bylund, M Capasso, S Caroff, A Carosi, S Casanova, M Cerruti, N Chakraborty, S Chandra, RCG Chaves, A Chen, S Colafrancesco, B Condon, ID Davids, C Deil, J Devin, P deWilt, L Dirson, A Djannati-Atai, A Dmytriiev, A Donath, V Doroshenko, LO Drury, J Dyks, K Egberts, G Emery, J-P Ernenwein, S Eschbach, S Fegan, A Fiasson, G Fontaine, S Funk, M Fuessling, S Gabici, YA Gallant, F Gate, G Giavitto, D Glawion, JF Glicenstein, D Gottschall, M-H Grondin, J Hahn, M Haupt, G Heinzelmann, G Henri, G Hermann, JA Hinton, W Hofmann, C Hoischen, TL Holch, M Holler, D Horns, D Huber, H Iwasaki, A Jacholkowska, M Jamrozy, D Jankowsky, F Jankowsky, L Jouvin, I Jung-Richardt, MA Kastendieck, K Katarzynski, M Katsuragawa, U Katz, D Kerszberg, D Khangulyan, B Khelifi, J King, S Klepser, W Kluzniak, N Komin, K Kosack, S Krakau, M Kraus, PP Kruger, G Lamanna, J Lau, J Lefaucheur, A Lemiere, M Lemoine-Goumard, J-P Lenain, E Leser, T Lohse, M Lorentz, R Lopez-Coto, I Lypova, D Malyshev, V Marandon, A Marcowith, C Mariaud, G Marti-Devesa, R Marx, G Maurin, PJ Meintjes, AMW Mitchell, R Moderski, M Mohamed, L Mohrmann, E Moulin, T Murach, S Nakashima, M de Naurois, H Ndiyavala, F Niederwanger, J Niemiec, L Oakes, P O'Brien, H Odaka, S Ohm, M Ostrowski, I Oya, M Padovani, M Panter, RD Parsons, C Perennes, P-O Petrucci, B Peyaud, Q Piel, S Pita, V Poireau, AP Noel, DA Prokhorov, H Prokoph, G Puehlhofer, M Punch, A Quirrenbach, S Raab, R Rauth, A Reimer, O Reimer, M Renaud, F Rieger, L Rinchiuso, C Romoli, G Rowell, B Rudak, E Ruiz-Velasco, V Sahakian, S Saito, DA Sanchez, A Santangelo, M Sasaki, R Schlickeiser, F Schussler, A Schulz, U Schwanke, S Schwemmer, M Seglar-Arroyo, M Senniappan, AS Seyffert, N Shafi, I Shilon, K Shiningayamwe, R Simoni, A Sinha, H Sol, F Spanier, A Specovius, M Spir-Jacob, L Stawarz, R Steenkamp, C Stegmann, C Steppa, T Takahashi, J-P Tavernet, T Tavernier, AM Taylor, R Terrier, L Tibaldo, D Tiziani, M Tluczykont, C Trichard, M Tsirou, N Tsuji, R Tuffs, Y Uchiyama, DJ van der Walt, C van Eldik, C van Rensburg, B van Soelen, G Vasileiadis, J Veh, C Venter, A Viana, P Vincent, J Vink, F Voisin, HJ Voelk, T Vuillaume, Z Wadiasingh, SJ Wagner, RM Wagner, R White, A Wierzcholska, R Yang, D Zaborov, M Zacharias, R Zanin, A Zdziarski, A Zech, F Zefi, A Ziegler, J Zorn, N Zywucka, M Cirelli, P Panci, F Sala, J Silk, M TaosoDwarf spheroidal galaxies are among the most promising targets for detecting signals of Dark Matter (DM) annihilations. The H.E.S.S. experiment has observed five of these systems for a total of about 130 hours. The data are re-analyzed here, and, in the absence of any detected signals, are interpreted in terms of limits on the DM annihilation cross section. Two scenarios are considered: i) DM annihilation into mono-energetic gamma-rays and ii) DM in the form of pure WIMP multiplets that, annihilating into all electroweak bosons, produce a distinctive gamma-ray spectral shape with a high-energy peak at the DM mass and a lower-energy continuum. For case i), upper limits at 95% confidence level of about lang σ v rang lesssim 3 × 10−25 cm3 s−1 are obtained in the mass range of 400 GeV to 1 TeV. For case ii), the full spectral shape of the models is used and several excluded regions are identified, but the thermal masses of the candidates are not robustly ruled out.
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The support of the Namibian authorities and of the University of Namibia in facilitating the construction and operation of H.E.S.S. is gratefully acknowledged, as is the support by the German Ministry for Education and Research (BMBF), the Max Planck Society, the German Research Foundation (DFG), the Helmholtz Association, the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, the French Ministry of Higher Education, Research and Innovation, the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS/IN2P3 and CNRS/INSU), the Commissariat `a l’´energie atomique et aux ´energies alternatives (CEA), the U.K. Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC), the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation, the National Science Centre, Poland grant no. 2016/22/M/ST9/00382, the South African Department of Science and Technology and National Research Foundation, the University of Namibia, the National Commission on Research, Science & Technology of Namibia (NCRST), the Austrian Federal Ministry of Education, Science and Research and the Austrian Science Fund (FWF), the Australian Research Council (ARC), the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science and by the University of Amsterdam. The work of A.V. has been supported by the S˜ao Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP) through Grant No. 2015/15897-1, and it was financed in part by the Coordena¸c˜ao de Aperfei¸coamento de Pessoal de N´ıvel Superior — Brasil (CAPES) — Finance Code 001. The work of M.C. and F.S. has been supported by the European Research Council (ERC) under the EU Seventh Framework Programme (FP7/2007-2013)/Erc Starting Grant (agreement n. 278234 — ‘NewDark’ project). The work of J.S. has been supported in part by ERC Project No. 267117 (Dark) hosted by the Pierre and Marie Curie University-Paris VI, Sorbonne University and CEA-Saclay and by the Institut Lagrange e Paris. The work of M.T. is supported by the Spanish Research Agency (Agencia Estatal de Investigaci´on) through the grant IFT Centro de Excelencia Sever
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JOURNAL OF COSMOLOGY AND ASTROPARTICLE PHYSICS, 2018 (11), pp. ?-? (22)Author affiliation
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