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Indirect searches for dark matter bound state formation and level transitions

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arxiv 2007.13787 v2 pith:Q76QCA2S submitted 2020-07-27 hep-ph astro-ph.HE

Indirect searches for dark matter bound state formation and level transitions

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Indirect searches for dark matter (DM) have conventionally been applied to the products of DM annihilation or decay. If DM couples to light force carriers, however, it can be captured into bound states via dissipation of energy that may yield detectable signals. We extend the indirect searches to DM bound state formation and transitions between bound levels, and constrain the emission of unstable dark photons. Our results significantly refine the predicted signal flux that could be observed in experiments. As a concrete example, we use Fermi-LAT dwarf spheroidal observations to obtain constraints in terms of the dark photon mass and energy which we use to search for the formation of stable or unstable bound states.

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