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Gamma-ray emission from warm WIMP annihilation. Qiang Yuan Institute of High Energy Physics Collaborated with Xiaojun Bi, Yixian Cao, Jie Liu, Liang Gao, Pengfei Yin & Xinmin Zhang (arXiv:1203.5636) TPCSF cosmology workshop 2012-05-23. Outline. Introduction of cold/warm dark matter
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Gamma-ray emission from warm WIMP annihilation Qiang Yuan Institute of High Energy Physics Collaborated with Xiaojun Bi, Yixian Cao, Jie Liu, Liang Gao, Pengfei Yin & Xinmin Zhang (arXiv:1203.5636) TPCSF cosmology workshop 2012-05-23
Outline • Introduction of cold/warm dark matter • Gamma-ray emission of warm WIMP based on numerical simulations • Conclusion
Structure evolution: cold dark matter Bottom-up structure formation pattern instead of top-down pattern (fragmentation): cold dark matter Springel et al. (2006) Nature CDM simulation vs. galaxy survey
How cold is dark matter? The coldness of dark matter depends on the free-streaming scale during the formation of structures • Hot dark matter (eV neutrinos) that washes out fluctuations on cluster scale (10 Mpc/h) • Warm dark matter (sterile neutrinos) that washes out fluctuations on galaxy scale (1 Mpc/h) • Cold dark matter that has effectively zero thermal velocity From Jing’s Nanjing talk (2012)
CDM WDM How cold is dark matter: matter power spectrum Tegmark et al. (2004)
How cold is dark matter: number of satellites Jing (2001)
How cold is dark matter: circular velocity of Milky Way satellites Lovell et al. (2012)
How cold is dark matter: velocity width function of galaxies (ALFALFA survey) Papastergis et al. (2011)
How cold is dark matter: central density of dwarf galaxies Burkert (1995) From Shi Shao (2012)
Observational summary • Large scale structures are very close to CDM • At (sub-)galactic scales, many discrepancies between observations and CDM expected (abundance, density profile, velocity profile) • WDM can better explain the observations
If it is conventional WDM (like sterile neutrino), it is fatal for DM detection • However, the non-thermal production can make WIMPs warm (Jeannerot et al. 1999; Lin et al. 2001; Bi et al. 2009)
Outline • Introduction of cold/warm dark matter • Gamma-ray emission of warm WIMP based on numerical simulations • Conclusion
1 keV WDM NT-WDM Lin et al. (2001) Simulations Lovell et al. (2012)
Subhalo statistics M vs. L≡∫2dV M vs. F≡L/d2
Two supersymmetric benchmark models Total skymaps with diffuse background (E>10 GeV)
Conclusion • Subhalos are less abundant for WDM, resulting a very flat subhalo luminosity function • It is currently difficult to detect either the cold or warm WIMPs, but the detectability of warm WIMP can be in principle better than cold WIMP due to a potentially larger cross section • For DM indirect search strategy, the Galactic center may be prior to dwarf galaxies for warm WIMP scenario (different from that for cold WIMPs)