CLUES on Fermi-LAT prospects for the extragalactic detection of μνSSM gravitino dark matter

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Gomez-Vargas, G. A. [1 ,2 ,3 ]
Fornasa, M. [4 ]
Zandanel, F. [4 ]
Cuesta, A. J. [5 ]
Munoz, C. [1 ,2 ]
Prada, F. [4 ]
Yepes, G. [1 ]
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[1] Univ Autonoma Madrid, Dept Fis Teor, E-28049 Madrid, Spain
[2] Univ Autonoma Madrid, Inst Fis Teor IFT UAM CSIC, E-28049 Madrid, Spain
[3] Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, Sez Roma Tor Vergata, I-00133 Rome, Italy
[4] Inst Astrofis Andalucia CSIC, E-18008 Granada, Spain
[5] Yale Univ, Yale Ctr Astron & Astrophys, New Haven, CT 06511 USA
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dark matter theory; gamma ray experiments; dark matter simulations; UNIVERSE;
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10.1088/1475-7516/2012/02/001
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P1 [天文学];
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0704 ;
摘要
The mu nu SSM 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 mu nu SSM, 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. The dark matter halo around the Virgo galaxy cluster is selected as a reference case, since it is associated to a particularly high signal-to-noise ratio and is located in a region scarcely affected by the astrophysical diffuse emission from the galactic plane. 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 a N-body simulation of the nearby extragalactic Universe, 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 x 10(27)-2 x 10(28) s 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 mu nu SSM by Fermi-LAT data of the galactic halo.
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