Minimal Dark Matter in the sky: updated Indirect Detection probes

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Authors: Mohammad Aghaie, Alessandro Dondarini, Giulio Marino, Paolo Panci
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Abstract

Abstract Minimal Dark Matter is among the simplest and most predictive Dark Matter frameworks, with the Majorana SU(2) 5-plet as its smallest accidentally stable real representation. We present a comprehensive reassessment of its indirect-detection signals. The γ-ray flux from both Sommerfeld-enhanced annihilations and bound-state formation is calculated, incorporating next-to-leading-order corrections and next-to-leading-log resummation of the relevant electroweak effects. In the Milky Way halo, bound-state formation dominates the flux near 100 GeV. The corresponding low-energy spectrum is used to place constraints based on Fermi-LAT observations of Galactic diffuse emission, while the high-energy part of the spectrum is employed to forecast the required observation time for several of the Milky Way's dwarf spheroidal galaxies using the Cherenkov Telescope Array Observatory (CTAO). Fermi-LAT data strongly disfavor the lower edge of the thermal mass window, even under conservative assumptions about the inner Galaxy density profile. Furthermore, several hundred hours of forthcoming CTAO observations of northern dwarfs should be sufficient to probe the central mass value.

Fields of Study & Subjects

CCD and CMOS Imaging Sensors Dark Matter and Cosmic Phenomena Advanced Semiconductor Detectors and Materials

Publication details

Journal / source
Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics
Publisher
IOP Publishing
Volume
2026
Issue
07
Pages
063–063
Publication date
1 July 2026
Language
EN