Possible indications of a clumpy dark matter halo
- 3 September 1998
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review D
- Vol. 58 (8) , 083507
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevd.58.083507
Abstract
We investigate if the gamma ray halo, for which recent evidence has been found in EGRET data, can be explained by neutralino annihilations in a clumpy halo. We find that the measured excess gamma ray flux can be explained through a moderate amount of clumping in the halo. The required amount of clumping implies also a measurable excess of antiprotons at low energies, which may be suggested by recent measurements by the BESS Collaboration. The predicted antiproton fluxes resulting from neutralino annihilations in a clumpy halo are high enough to give an excess over cosmic-ray produced antiprotons also at moderately high energies (above a few GeV). This prediction, as well as that of one or two sharp gamma lines coming from annihilations into γγ or can be tested in upcoming space-borne experiments such as AMS and GLAST.
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