Supersymmetric dark matter and the extragalactic gamma ray background

Phys Rev Lett. 2005 May 6;94(17):171302. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.94.171302. Epub 2005 May 5.

Abstract

We trace the origin of the newly determined extragalactic gamma-ray background from EGRET data to an unresolved population of blazars and neutralino annihilation in cold dark matter halos. Using results of high-resolution simulations of cosmic structure formation, we calculate composite spectra and compare with the EGRET data. The resulting best-fit value for the neutralino mass is m(chi) = 515(+110)(-75) GeV (systematic errors approximately 30%).