{
  "id": "2406.07489",
  "version": "v1",
  "published": "2024-06-11T17:29:29.000Z",
  "updated": "2024-06-11T17:29:29.000Z",
  "title": "Prospects for the detection of Dark Matter with Long-lived Mediators in the Sun using the Southern Wide-field Gamma-ray Observatory",
  "authors": [
    "Micael Andrade",
    "Juan Fagiani",
    "Clarissa Siqueira",
    "Vitor de Souza",
    "Aion Viana"
  ],
  "comment": "15 pages, 3 figures",
  "categories": [
    "astro-ph.HE",
    "hep-ph"
  ],
  "abstract": "The operation of the next generation of gamma-ray observatories will lead to a great advance in dark matter searches. In this paper, we use the hidden sectors hypothesis within the so-called secluded models to calculate the capabilities of the Southern Wide-field Gamma-ray Observatory (SWGO) to detect gamma-ray signatures produced by dark matter particles concentrated in the Sun. We assume the dark matter particle annihilates into metastable mediators which decay into $\\gamma\\gamma$, $e^+e^-$, $\\tau^+\\tau^-$, and $\\bar{b}b$ outside the Sun. We found that the SWGO will be able to probe a spin-dependent cross-section of about $10^{-46}$ cm$^2$ for dark matter masses smaller than 5 TeV. This result shows an unprecedented sensitivity surpassing the current instruments by more than one order of magnitude.",
  "revisions": [
    {
      "version": "v1",
      "updated": "2024-06-11T17:29:29.000Z"
    }
  ],
  "analyses": {
    "keywords": [
      "southern wide-field gamma-ray observatory",
      "long-lived mediators",
      "dark matter masses smaller",
      "dark matter particle annihilates",
      "detect gamma-ray signatures"
    ],
    "note": {
      "typesetting": "TeX",
      "pages": 15,
      "language": "en",
      "license": "arXiv",
      "status": "editable"
    }
  }
}