Expectation on LHAASO sensitivity to decaying dark matter signatures from dwarf galaxies gamma-ray emission [HEAP]

http://arxiv.org/abs/1910.05017


As a next-generation complex extensive air shower array with a large field of view (FOV), the Large High Altitude Air Shower Observatory (LHAASO) would be very sensitive to the 300 GeV $-$ 1 PeV gamma rays. Dwarf spheroidal satellite galaxies (dSphs) are some of the most DM dominated objects and the ideal laboratory for dark matter (DM) indirect detection. LHAASO will become a promising project to search for the gamma-ray signatures induced by heavy DM particles in the dSphs. In this paper, we make a forecast for the LHAASO sensitivity to the gamma-ray signatures of decaying DM particles from 19 dSphs within the LHAASO FOV. We make a joint likelihood analysis for the overall 19 dSphs and also take the uncertainties of dSphs’ spatial DM distribution into consideration. We find that the LHAASO sensitivity to the DM decay lifetime will reach $\mathcal{O} (10^{26} s) \sim \mathcal{O} (10^{28} s)$ for several decay channels at the mass scale from 1 TeV to 100 TeV.

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D. He, X. Bi, S. Lin, et. al.
Mon, 14 Oct 19
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Comments: 9 pages, 2 figures