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Can annihilating Dark Matter be lighter than a few GeVs?

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arxiv astro-ph/0208458 v3 pith:5OFSQVFS submitted 2002-08-26 astro-ph

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We estimate the gamma ray fluxes from the residual annihilations of Dark Matter particles having a mass mdm \in [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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