Hazma A python toolkit for studying indirect detection of sub-GeV dark matter

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Authors
Publication date 01-2020
Journal Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics
Article number 056
Volume | Issue number 2020 | 1
Number of pages 56
Organisations
  • Faculty of Science (FNWI) - Institute of Physics (IoP) - Institute for Theoretical Physics Amsterdam (ITFA)
  • Faculty of Science (FNWI) - Institute of Physics (IoP)
Abstract

With several proposed MeV gamma-ray telescopes on the horizon, it is of paramount importance to perform accurate calculations of gamma-ray spectra expected from sub-GeV dark matter annihilation and decay. We present hazma, a python package for reliably computing these spectra, determining the resulting constraints from existing gamma-ray data, and prospects for upcoming telescopes. For high-level analyses, hazma comes with several built-in dark matter models where the interactions between dark matter and hadrons have been determined in detail using chiral perturbation theory. Additionally, hazma provides tools for computing spectra from individual final states with arbitrary numbers of light leptons and mesons, and for analyzing custom dark matter models. hazma can also produce electron and positron spectra from dark matter annihilation, enabling precise derivation of constraints from the cosmic microwave background.

Document type Article
Language English
Published at https://doi.org/10.1088/1475-7516/2020/01/056
Published at http://arxiv.org/abs/1907.11846
Other links https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/85081991620
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1907.11846 (Submitted manuscript)
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