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Can annihilating Dark Matter be lighter than a few GeVs?

C. Boehm, T. A. Ensslin, J. Silk

astro-pharXiv:astro-ph/0208458

Abstract

We estimate the gamma ray fluxes from the residual annihilations of Dark Matter particles having a mass mdm ∈ [MeV, O(GeV)] and compare them to observations. We find that particles lighter than O(100 MeV) are excluded unless their cross section is S-wave suppressed.

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