Constraining gravitational dark matter with LHAASO and Fermi-LAT

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Constraining gravitational dark matter with LHAASO and Fermi-LAT

Year : 2026

Publisher : American Physical Society

Source Title : Physical Review D

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Abstract

We use diffuse Galactic high energy gamma ray data from LHAASO and Fermi-LAT to constrain gravitationally produced decaying dark matter (DM). Focusing on four benchmark candidates: a dark photon, a heavy right-handed neutrino (RHN), a pseudo-Nambu-Goldstone boson (pNGB), and a nonminimally coupled scalar we derive bounds on the DM mass and its couplings to the visible sector. For dark photons, RHNs, and pNGBs, the combined data constrain the effective interaction strength to ≲Oð10−30Þ for DM masses ≳OðTeVÞ. For the nonminimally coupled scalar, this interaction strength is limited to ≲Oð10−10Þ, for the same DM mass range. Moreover, photon-dark photon oscillations yield strong constraints for massive dark photon beyond 10 GeV, closing a region of parameter space previously left unconstrained.