Informational corrections to the early-Universe radiation sector: CET Omega, WIMP freeze-out, and implications for a possible 20 GeV gamma-ray excess

TL;DR

This paper explores how a proposed extension to cosmology, CET Omega, could explain a tentative 20 GeV gamma-ray excess via modifications to early-Universe radiation, affecting dark matter freeze-out and gamma-ray signals.

Contribution

It introduces CET Omega as a modular extension predicting universal radiation density corrections impacting WIMP freeze-out and gamma-ray observations, consistent with current constraints.

Findings

Percent-level shifts in dark matter relic abundance.

Sub-percent morphological corrections to gamma-ray flux.

Potential observable deviations in gamma-ray morphology for future missions.

Abstract

Recent analyses of Fermi-LAT data have identified a nearly spherical, halo-like excess of gamma rays peaking at E_gamma ~ 20 GeV. If interpreted as dark matter annihilation, the excess directly probes the thermal freeze-out epoch and therefore any non-standard corrections to the early-Universe expansion rate. In this work we examine the implications of this tentative signal for CET Omega, an informational and modular extension of relativistic quantum field theory and cosmology. CET Omega predicts a universal state-dependent modification to the radiation energy density of the early Universe, characterized by a doubly logarithmic correction originating from renormalized modular fluctuations in the spectral triple of the theory. The correction is negligible during Big Bang nucleosynthesis and recombination but becomes relevant during thermal WIMP freeze-out. We derive the correction from the modular two-point function, justify the onset scale associated with the informational sector, and compute its quantitative impact on freeze-out through numerical solutions. We also analyze the evolution of the informational field Phi_Omega(x) and show that it freezes in before the freeze-out epoch and survives to the present time under gravitational advection. The resulting modification induces percent-level shifts in the relic abundance and sub-percent morphological corrections to the annihilation gamma-ray flux. We compare the scenario with Early Dark Energy, kination, and varying N_eff models, and show that the parameter range 10^{-4} < alpha_log < 10^{-2} remains consistent with Planck, BBN, and BAO constraints while predicting potentially observable deviations in the gamma-ray morphology accessible to next-generation MeV-GeV missions.