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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Davis, Jonathan H.
• Silk, Joseph
• Bœhm, Céline
• Kotera, Kumiko
• Norman, Colin

Titel

Shocking signals of dark matter annihilation

Ist Teil von

• Physical review. D, 2016-05, Vol.93 (10), Article 103523

Erscheinungsjahr

2016

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Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• We examine whether charged particles injected by self-annihilating dark matter (DM) into regions undergoing diffuse shock acceleration can be accelerated to high energies. We consider three astrophysical sites where shock acceleration is supposed to occur, namely the Galactic center and galaxy cluster mergers. For the Milky Way, we find that the acceleration of cosmic rays injected by dark matter could lead to a bump in the cosmic ray spectrum provided that the product of the efficiency of the acceleration mechanism and the concentration of DM particles is high enough. Within the Galaxy, we find that the Fermi bubbles are a potentially more efficient accelerator than supernovae remnants. However, both could in principle accelerate electrons and protons injected by dark matter to very high energies. At the extragalactic level, the acceleration of dark matter annihilation products could be responsible for enhanced radio emission from colliding clusters.