Abstract
It has been suggested that pair annihilation of heavy Majorana fermions in the galactic halo into quarkonium plus a monochromatic photon could occur at an observable rate. Here we show that a calculation of Srednicki, Theisen, and Silk seriously overestimates the rate for this process, by an order of magnitude or more, as a result of neglecting the bound-state structure of quarkonium. It may nevertheless still be possible to resolve the correspondingly smaller gamma-ray line flux over the diffuse cosmic background by use of the currently planned space-borne superconducting-magnet spectrometer facility with an energy resolution of 1% or better.
| Original language | English (US) |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 2128-2131 |
| Number of pages | 4 |
| Journal | Physical review letters |
| Volume | 56 |
| Issue number | 20 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - 1986 |
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