Search for gamma-ray spectral lines from dark matter annihilation with the H.E.S.S. Inner Galaxy Survey

arXiv:2608.07234 · astro-ph.HE · Submitted 2026-08-07 · Read on arXiv

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Submitted: 2026-08-07

Updated: 2026-08-07

Comments: Accepted in Phys. Rev. Lett., includes Supplemental materials. 6+7 pages, 2+1 figures, 0+2 tables

License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/

Terminology

• Milky Way — 18× in this paper
• Galactic Centre — 7× in this paper
• Core — 5× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Abundance — 3× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Baryonic Feedback — 2× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Weakly Interacting Massive Particles — 2× in this paper
• Clustering — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Consistency — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Stellar Feedback — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

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• Supersymmetric Dark Matter
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• Minimal Dark Matter: model and results
• Gamma ray tests of Minimal Dark Matter
• The Minimal Model for Dark Matter and Unification
• $Z$ boson mediated dark matter beyond the effective theory
• Direct Detection of WIMP Dark Matter: Concepts and Status
• Review of LHC Dark Matter Searches
• Closing the window on WIMP Dark Matter
• The last Complex WIMPs standing
• Hunting wino and higgsino dark matter at the muon collider with disappearing tracks
• Discovery reach for wino and higgsino dark matter with a disappearing track signature at a 100 TeV $pp$ collider
• Universal behavior in the scattering of heavy, weakly interacting dark matter on nuclear targets
• WIMP-nucleon scattering with heavy WIMP effective theory
• Standard Model anatomy of WIMP dark matter direct detection I: weak-scale matching
• QCD Effects on Direct Detection of Wino Dark Matter

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