Dark matter in the Milky Way may annihilate directly into γ rays, producing a monoenergetic spectral line. Therefore, detecting such a signature would be strong evidence for dark matter annihilation or decay. We search for spectral lines in the Fermi Large Area Telescope observations of the Milky Way halo in the energy range 200 MeV-500 GeV using analysis methods from our most recent line searches. The main improvements relative to previous works are our use of 5.8 years of data reprocessed with the Pass 8 event-level analysis and the additional data resulting from the modified observing strategy designed to increase exposure of the Galactic center region. We search in five sky regions selected to optimize sensitivity to different theoretic...
Dark matter in the Milky Way may annihilate directly into γ rays, producing a monoenergetic spectral...
Spectral lines are among the most powerful signatures for dark matter (DM) annihilation searches in ...
Spectral lines are among the most powerful signatures for dark matter (DM) annihilation searches in ...
Dark matter in the Milky Way may annihilate directly into γ rays, producing a monoenergetic spectral...
Dark matter in the Milky Way may annihilate directly into γ rays, producing a monoenergetic spectral...
Spectral lines are among the most powerful signatures for dark matter (DM) annihilation searches in ...
Spectral lines are among the most powerful signatures for dark matter (DM) annihilation searches in ...
Dark matter in the Milky Way may annihilate directly into γ rays, producing a monoenergetic spectral...
Dark matter in the Milky Way may annihilate directly into γ rays, producing a monoenergetic spectral...
Spectral lines are among the most powerful signatures for dark matter (DM) annihilation searches in ...
Spectral lines are among the most powerful signatures for dark matter (DM) annihilation searches in ...