Hunting for dark matter and new physics with GECCO

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Authors
  • A. Coogan
  • A.A. Moiseev
  • L. Morrison
  • S. Profumo
  • M.G. Baring
  • A. Bolotnikov
  • G.A. Carini
  • S.C. Herrmann
  • F. Longo
  • F.W. Stecker
  • A.A. Vigliano
  • R.S. Woolf
Publication date 15-01-2023
Journal Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology
Article number 023022
Volume | Issue number 107 | 2
Number of pages 23
Organisations
  • Faculty of Science (FNWI) - Institute of Physics (IoP) - Institute for Theoretical Physics Amsterdam (ITFA)
Abstract We outline the science opportunities in the areas of searches for dark matter and new physics offered by a proposed future MeV gamma-ray telescope, the Galactic Explorer with a Coded Aperture Mask Compton Telescope (GECCO). We point out that such an instrument would play a critical role in opening up a discovery window for particle dark matter with mass in the MeV or sub-MeV range, in disentangling the origin of the mysterious 511 keV line emission in the Galactic Center region, and in potentially discovering Hawking evaporation from light primordial black holes.
Document type Article
Language English
Published at https://doi.org/10.1103/PHYSREVD.107.023022
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