Cosmic Gamma-ray from Inverse Compton Process in Unstable Dark Matter Scenario

Abstract

Motivated by the PAMELA anomaly in the fluxes of cosmic-ray positron and electron, we study the cosmic gamma-ray induced by the inverse Compton (IC) scattering process in unstable dark matter scenario assuming that the anomaly is due to the positron and electron emission by the decay of dark matter. We calculate the fluxes of IC-induced gamma-ray produced in our Galaxy and that from cosmological distance, and show that both of them are significant. We discuss a possibility that large dark matter mass over TeV scale might be constrained by the gamma-ray observation by Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope.

Comments: 9 pages, 3 figures. To appear in the proceedings of SciNeGHE 2009 Gamma Ray Physics in the LHC Era ASSISI, Italy, October 7-9, 2009