http://arxiv.org/abs/2205.07055
We present the first branon dark matter (DM) search in the very high-energy gamma-ray band with observations of the dwarf spheroidal galaxy Segue~1 carried out by the Major Atmospheric Gamma Imaging Cherenkov (MAGIC) telescope system. Branons are new degrees of freedom that appear in flexible brane-world models corresponding to brane fluctuations. They behave as weakly interacting massive particles, which are natural DM candidates. In the absence of a gamma-ray signal in the Segue~1 data, we place constraints on the branon DM parameter space by using a binned likelihood analysis. Our most constraining limit to the thermally-averaged annihilation cross-section (at $95\%$ confidence level) corresponds to $ \langle \sigma v \rangle \simeq 1.4 \times 10^{-23}~\text{cm}^{3}\text{s}^{-1} $ at a branon DM mass of $ \sim 0.7~\text{TeV}$.
T. Miener, D. Nieto, V. Gammaldi, et. al.
Tue, 17 May 22
53/95
Comments: invited contribution to the 2022 VHEPU session of the 56th Rencontres de Moriond (5 pages, 2 figures)
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