Indirect detection of Kaluza-Klein dark matter

Gianfranco Bertone, Géraldine Servant, and Günter Sigl
Phys. Rev. D 68, 044008 – Published 7 August 2003
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Abstract

We investigate prospects for indirect detection of Kaluza-Klein dark matter, focusing on the annihilation radiation of the first Kaluza-Klein excitation of the hypercharge gauge boson B(1) in the galactic halo; in particular we estimate neutrino, gamma-ray and synchrotron fluxes. Comparing the predicted fluxes with observational data we are able to constrain the B(1) mass (and therefore the compactification scale). The constraints depend on the specific model adopted for the dark matter density profile. For a Navarro, Frenk, and White profile the analysis of synchrotron radiation puts a lower bound on the B(1) mass of the order of 300GeV.

  • Received 21 November 2002

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.68.044008

©2003 American Physical Society

Authors & Affiliations

Gianfranco Bertone

  • GReCO, Institut d’Astrophysique de Paris, C.N.R.S., 98 bis boulevard Arago, F-75014 Paris, France

Géraldine Servant

  • Enrico Fermi Institute, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60637, USA
  • High Energy Physics Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Illinois 60439, USA

Günter Sigl

  • GReCO, Institut d’Astrophysique de Paris, C.N.R.S., 98 bis boulevard Arago, F-75014 Paris, France

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Vol. 68, Iss. 4 — 15 August 2003

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