Closing in on the ultimate Dark Matter limits forecast by the Fermi Gamma-Ray Space Telescope

2021 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 20K14463
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Early-Career Scientists
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Review Section: Basic Section 15010:Theoretical studies related to particle-, nuclear-, cosmic ray and astro-physics
• Research Institution: The University of Tokyo
• Principal Investigator: MACIAS.RAMIREZ OSCAR.ARMANDO 東京大学, カブリ数物連携宇宙研究機構, 特任研究員 (20869185)
• Project Period (FY): 2020-04-01 – 2022-03-31
• Keywords: dark matter / pulsars

Outline of Final Research Achievements

(a) I used multi-messenger cosmic ray data to impose strong conservative constraints on super-heavy dark matter particles [JCAP 01 (2020) 003].(b) I used radio observations to impose the current most stringent constraints on microelectronvolt-scale axion dark matter particles [Phys.Rev.Lett. 125 (2020) 17, 171301].(c) I used the revolutionary astrophysical background model created in Macias+(2018) to obtain the strongest constraints in the literature on gigaelectronvolt-scale dark matter particles in the literature [Phys.Rev.D 102 (2020) 4, 043012].(d) I demonstrated that the upcoming Cherenkov Telescope Array will be the world’s most sensitive instrument to search Wino dark matter particles [Phys.Rev.D 103 (2021) 2, 023011](e) In [ MNRAS. 509 (2021) 1, L11-L16], I used INTEGRAL satellite data to show that the so-called positron excess was in fact not due to dark matter emission. Instead, it was related to the physics of the stars in the Galactic bulge.

Free Research Field

Astroparticle physics

Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements

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