Potential of LOFT telescope for the search of dark matter

Large Observatory For X-ray Timing (LOFT) is a next generation X-ray telescope selected by European Space Agency as one of the space mission concepts within the ``Cosmic Vision'' programme. The Large Area Detector on board of LOFT will be a collimator-type telescope with an unprecedentedly...

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Published in:arXiv.org 2013-12
Main Authors: Neronov, A, Boyarsky, A, Iakubovskyi, D, Ruchayskiy, O
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Collimation
Dark matter
Galactic halos
Measuring instruments
Particle decay
Searching
Telescopes
X ray telescopes
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Summary:Large Observatory For X-ray Timing (LOFT) is a next generation X-ray telescope selected by European Space Agency as one of the space mission concepts within the ``Cosmic Vision'' programme. The Large Area Detector on board of LOFT will be a collimator-type telescope with an unprecedentedly large collecting area of about 10 square meters in the energy band between 2 and 100 keV. We demonstrate that LOFT will be a powerful dark matter detector, suitable for the search of the X-ray line emission expected from decays of light dark matter particles in galactic halos. We show that LOFT will have sensitivity for dark matter line search more than an order of magnitude higher than that of all existing X-ray telescopes. In this way, LOFT will be able to provide a new insight into the fundamental problem of the nature of dark matter.
ISSN:2331-8422
DOI:10.48550/arxiv.1312.5178