Hadronic footprint of GeV-mass dark matter

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24 June 2020

journal article
research article
Published by Stichting SciPost in SciPost Physics

Vol. 8 (6), 092
https://doi.org/10.21468/scipostphys.8.6.092

Abstract

GeV-scale dark matter is an increasingly attractive target for direct detection, indirect detection, and collider searches. Its annihilation into hadronic final states produces a challenging zoo of light hadronic resonances. We update Herwig7 to study the photon and positron spectra from annihilation through a vector mediator. It covers dark matter masses between 250 MeV and 5 GeV and includes an error estimate.

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Funding Information

Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (GRK 1940, 396021762 — TRR 257)
Horizon 2020 (722104)
Science and Technology Facilities Council (ST/P000800/1, ST/P001246/1)

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