# ICHEP2012

Jul 4 – 11, 2012
Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre
Australia/Melbourne timezone
ICHEP2012 - 36th International Conference for High Energy Physics

## Illuminating the 130 GeV Gamma Line with Continuum Photons

Jul 6, 2012, 11:15 AM
15m
Room 219 (Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre)

### Room 219

#### Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre

Melbourne Australia
Parallel Sessions Track 2 - Beyond the Standard Model - SUSY

### Speaker

Prof. Jacob Wacker (SLAC (US))

### Description

There is evidence for a 130 GeV $\gamma$-ray line at the Galactic Center in the \emph{Fermi} Large Area Telescope data. Dark matter candidates that explain this feature should also annihilate to Standard Model particles, resulting in a continuous spectrum of photons. To study this continuum, we analyze the \emph{Fermi} data down to 5 GeV, restricted to the inner $3^\circ$ of the Galaxy. We place a strong bound on the ratio of continuum photons to monochromatic line photons that is independent of uncertainties in the dark matter density profile. Neutralino dark matter is excluded by the derived constraints.

### Primary author

Prof. Jacob Wacker (SLAC (US))

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