Indirect detection of Kaluza-Klein dark matter
- 7 August 2003
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review D
- Vol. 68 (4) , 044008
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevd.68.044008
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 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 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 mass of the order of
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