Width of the 511 keV line from the bulge of the galaxy
Abstract
In this paper I present the detail estimations for the width of the 511 keV line produced by a mechanism when dark matter is represented by macroscopically large dense nuggets. I argue that the width of 511 keV emission in this mechanism is very narrow (in a few keV range) in agreement with all observations. The dominant mechanism of the annihilation in this case is the positronium formation e+e-→S01→2γ rather than a direct e+e-→2γ annihilation. I also discuss some generic features of the γ rays spectrum (in few MeV range) resulting from this mechanism.
- Publication:
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Physical Review D
- Pub Date:
- November 2007
- DOI:
- 10.1103/PhysRevD.76.103518
- arXiv:
- arXiv:astro-ph/0607361
- Bibcode:
- 2007PhRvD..76j3518Z
- Keywords:
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- 98.80.Cq;
- 12.38.-t;
- 95.30.Cq;
- 95.35.+d;
- Particle-theory and field-theory models of the early Universe;
- Quantum chromodynamics;
- Elementary particle processes;
- Dark matter;
- Astrophysics;
- High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
- E-Print:
- This is a comment on astro-ph/0606429 by Cumberbatch, Silk and Starkman