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Centro de Astrofísica da Universidade do Porto
22-26 August 2011, Porto, Portugal

 

Photon spectra from WIMPs annihilation
De La Cruz-Dombriz, Alvaro (Cosmology and Gravitation Group, University of Cape Town)

If the present dark matter in the Universe annihilates into Standard Model particles, it must contribute to the fluxes of cosmic rays that are detected on the Earth, and in particular, to the observed gamma ray fluxes. The magnitude of such contribution depends on the particular dark matter candidate, but certain features of the produced photon spectra may be analyzed in a rather model-independent fashion. In this work we provide the complete photon spectra coming from WIMP annihilation into Standard Model particle-antiparticle pairs obtained by extensive Monte Carlo simulations. We present results for each individual annihilation channel and provide analytical fitting formulae for the different spectra for a wide range of WIMP masses.