Light WIMPs and MeV Gamma-ray Detection with COSI
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| author | Watanabe, Yu Matsumoto, Shigeki Karwin, Christopher M. Melia, Tom Negro, Michela Siegert, Thomas Watanabe, Yuki Yoneda, Hiroki Takahashi, Tadayuki |
| author_facet | Watanabe, Yu Matsumoto, Shigeki Karwin, Christopher M. Melia, Tom Negro, Michela Siegert, Thomas Watanabe, Yuki Yoneda, Hiroki Takahashi, Tadayuki |
| contents | Light weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs), whose masses are in the sub-GeV scale, have been attracting more attention due to the negative results searching for traditional WIMPs. The light WIMPs are expected to produce gamma rays from annihilation in the MeV energy region. Advancements in technology have opened up possibilities to precisely detect MeV gamma rays, leading to the upcoming space-based mission of the Compton Spectrometer and Imager (COSI). We comprehensively and quantitatively study the phenomenology of light WIMPs to determine if the COSI observations will probe their viable model parameter regions. We first construct models to describe light WIMPs based on the minimality and renormalizability of quantum field theory. Next, we impose various constraints on the models obtained from cosmological observations (CMB, BBN) and dark matter searches (accelerator, underground, astrophysical experiments, etc.). Finally, we identify viable parameter regions in each model and discuss whether or not COSI will be sensitive to the parameter regions. We find that a velocity-dependent annihilation cross-section is predicted in some regions, enabling COSI to detect the dark matter signal while avoiding severe constraints from cosmological observations. |
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| spellingShingle | Light WIMPs and MeV Gamma-ray Detection with COSI Watanabe, Yu Matsumoto, Shigeki Karwin, Christopher M. Melia, Tom Negro, Michela Siegert, Thomas Watanabe, Yuki Yoneda, Hiroki Takahashi, Tadayuki High Energy Physics - Phenomenology High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena Light weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs), whose masses are in the sub-GeV scale, have been attracting more attention due to the negative results searching for traditional WIMPs. The light WIMPs are expected to produce gamma rays from annihilation in the MeV energy region. Advancements in technology have opened up possibilities to precisely detect MeV gamma rays, leading to the upcoming space-based mission of the Compton Spectrometer and Imager (COSI). We comprehensively and quantitatively study the phenomenology of light WIMPs to determine if the COSI observations will probe their viable model parameter regions. We first construct models to describe light WIMPs based on the minimality and renormalizability of quantum field theory. Next, we impose various constraints on the models obtained from cosmological observations (CMB, BBN) and dark matter searches (accelerator, underground, astrophysical experiments, etc.). Finally, we identify viable parameter regions in each model and discuss whether or not COSI will be sensitive to the parameter regions. We find that a velocity-dependent annihilation cross-section is predicted in some regions, enabling COSI to detect the dark matter signal while avoiding severe constraints from cosmological observations. |
| title | Light WIMPs and MeV Gamma-ray Detection with COSI |
| topic | High Energy Physics - Phenomenology High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.11810 |