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The electron-positron annihilation gamma-ray signal at 511 keV in the Milky Way is investigated towards a possible dark matter interpretation. If all bulge positrons were created by dark matter particle annihilation, the satellite galaxies…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-07-24 Thomas Siegert

Although the annihilation of positrons towards the Galactic centre was established more than 50 years ago through the detection of a 511 keV $\gamma$-ray line, the origin of the positrons remains unknown. The $\gamma$-ray line should be…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-08-27 Jürgen Knödlseder , Karim Sabri , Pierre Jean , Peter von Ballmoos , Gerry Skinner , Werner Collmar

We consider a simple extension of the Standard Model to consistently explain the observation of a peak in the galactic X-ray spectrum at 3.55 keV and the light neutrino masses along with the baryon asymmetry of the universe. The baryon…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-01-17 Sin Kyu Kang , Ayon Patra

A possible dark matter (DM) explanation about the long-standing issue of the Galactic 511 keV line is explored in this paper. For DM cascade annihilations of concern, a DM pair $\pi_d^{+} \pi_d^{-}$ annihilates into unstable $\pi_d^{0}…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-03-14 Lian-Bao Jia

The three major large-scale, diffuse $\gamma$-ray structures of the Milky Way are the Galactic disk, a bulge-like GeV excess towards the Galactic center, and the Fermi bubble. Whether such structures can also be present in other normal…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-04-03 Li Feng , Zhiyuan Li , Meng Su , Pak-Hin T. Tam , Yang Chen

Recently, a diffuse emission of 1-100 GeV $\gamma$-rays has been detected from the direction of Andromeda. The emission is centered on the galaxy, and extends for $\sim 100-200$ kpc away from its center. Explaining the extended $\gamma-$ray…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-06-30 S. Recchia , S. Gabici , F. A. Aharonian , V. Niro

Millisecond pulsars (MSPs) are prolific GeV $\gamma\text{-ray}$ emitters, and nearly 80\% of Fermi-LAT MSPs reside in compact binaries. We demonstrate that the companions in these compact MSPs binaries are also 511 keV annihilation line…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-09-05 Zachary Metzler , Zorawar Wadiasingh

The TeV/PeV neutrino emission from our Galaxy is related to the distribution of cosmic-ray accelerators, their maximal energy of injection as well as the propagation of injected particles and their interaction with molecular gas. In the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-06-12 Antonio Marinelli , Dario Grasso , Sofia Ventura

TeV-mass dark matter charged under a new GeV-scale gauge force can explain electronic cosmic-ray anomalies. We propose that the CoGeNT and DAMA direct detection experiments are observing scattering of light stable states -- "GeV-Matter" --…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-03-14 Rouven Essig , Jared Kaplan , Philip Schuster , Natalia Toro

The astrophysical $\gamma$-ray photons carry the signatures of the violent phenomena happening on various astronomical scales in our Universe. This includes supernova remnants, pulsars, and pulsar wind nebulae in the Galactic environment…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-05-09 Vaidehi S. Paliya , D. J. Saikia

Neutron-rich material ejected from neutron star-neutron star (NS-NS) and neutron star-black hole (NS-BH) binary mergers is heated by nuclear processes to temperatures of a few hundred keV, resulting in a population of electron-positron…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-04-03 George M. Fuller , Alexander Kusenko , David Radice , Volodymyr Takhistov

I review our current understanding of positron sources in the Galaxy, on the basis of the reported properties of the observed 511 keV annihilation line. It is argued here that most of the disk positrons propagate away from the disk and the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 N. Prantzos

Star-forming galaxies are huge reservoirs of cosmic rays (CRs) and these CRs convert a significant fraction of their energy into $\gamma$-rays by colliding with the interstellar medium (ISM). Several nearby star-forming galaxies have been…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-10-14 Shao-Qiang Xi , Hai-Ming Zhang , Ruo-Yu Liu , Xiang-Yu Wang

The Tibet ASgamma experiment just reported their measurement of sub-PeV diffuse gamma ray emission from the Galactic disk, with the highest energy up to 957 TeV. These gamma-rays are most likely the hadronic origin by cosmic ray interaction…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-04-09 Bing-Qiang Qiao , Wei Liu , Meng-Jie Zhao , Xiao-Jun Bi , Yi-Qing Guo

Light gravitinos, with mass in the eV to MeV range, are well-motivated in particle physics, but their status as dark-matter candidates is muddled by early-Universe uncertainties. We investigate how upcoming data from colliders may clarify…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-10-12 Jonathan L. Feng , Marc Kamionkowski , Samuel K. Lee

We report results of a search for particles with anomalously high ionization in events with a high transverse energy jet and large missing transverse energy in $2.4$ fb$^{-1}$ of integrated luminosity collected by the D0 experiment at the…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2010-12-03 D0 Collaboration , V. Abazov

The detection of an unidentified emission line in X-ray spectra of cosmic objects would be a 'smoking gun' signature for particle physics beyond the Standard Model. More than a decade of its extensive searches results in several narrow…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-10-11 Dmytro Iakubovskyi

The recent analyses of the Fermi Large Area Telescope data show an extended GeV $\gamma$-ray excess on top of the expected diffuse background in the Galactic center region, which can be explained with annihilating dark matter or a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-04-23 Qiang Yuan , Kunihito Ioka

In a previous work, it was found that the Light Dark Matter (LDM) scenario could be a possible explanation to the 511 keV emission line detected at the centre of our galaxy. Here, we show that hints of this scenario may also have been…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-10 Celine Boehm , Yago Ascasibar

There is evidence for a 130 GeV gamma-ray line at the Galactic Center in the Fermi Large Area Telescope data. Dark matter candidates that explain this feature should also annihilate to Standard Model particles, resulting in a continuous…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-05 Timothy Cohen , Mariangela Lisanti , Tracy R. Slatyer , Jay G. Wacker
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