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The cosmic microwave background provides constraints on the annihilation and decay of light dark matter at redshifts between 100 and 1000, the strength of which depends upon the fraction of energy ending up in the form of electrons and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-04-29 James M. Cline , Pat Scott

The observed anomalous excess of high-energy cosmic ray (CR) positrons is widely discussed as possible indirect evidence for dark matter (DM). However, any source of cosmic positrons is inevitably the source of gamma radiation. The least…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-04-14 Konstantin M. Belotsky , Airat Kh. Kamaletdinov , Ekaterina S. Shlepkina , Maxim L. Solovyov

Neutrinos heavier than $M_Z/2\sim 45$ GeV are not excluded by particle physics data. Stable neutrinos heavier than this might contribute to the cosmic gamma ray background through annihilation in distant galaxies as well as to the dark…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Erik Elfgren , Sverker Fredriksson

We compute the bounds on the dark matter (DM) annihilation cross section using the most recent Cosmic Microwave Background measurements from WMAP9, SPT'11 and ACT'10. We consider DM with mass in the MeV-TeV range annihilating 100% into…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-09-13 Laura Lopez-Honorez , Olga Mena , Sergio Palomares-Ruiz , Aaron C. Vincent

Lambda- Cold Dark Matter (LambdaCDM) has been successful at explaining the large-scale structures in the universe but faces severe issues on smaller scales when compared to observations. Introducing self-interactions between dark matter…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-11-22 The CRESST Collaboration

Due to shielding, direct detection experiments are in some cases insensitive to dark matter candidates with very large scattering cross sections with nucleons. In this paper, we revisit this class of models, and derive a simple analytic…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-06-13 Dan Hooper , Samuel D. McDermott

Well-motivated models of dark matter often result in a population of electrons and positrons within galaxies produced through dark matter annihilation -- usually in association with gamma rays. As they diffuse through galactic magnetic…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-02-23 Mitchell J. Weikert , Matthew R. Buckley

We consider the indirect detection of dark matter that is captured in the Sun and subsequently annihilates to long-lived dark mediators. If these mediators escape the Sun before decaying, they can produce striking gamma ray signals, either…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-09-21 Nicole F. Bell , James B. Dent , Isaac W. Sanderson

The first published Fermi large area telescope (Fermi-LAT) measurement of the isotropic diffuse gamma-ray emission is in good agreement with a single power law, and is not showing any signature of a dominant contribution from dark matter…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 LAT collaboration , A. A. Abdo , M. Ackermann , M. Ajello , L. Baldini , J. Ballet , G. Barbiellini , D. Bastieri , K. Bechtol , R. Bellazzini , B. Berenji , R. D. Blandford , E. D. Bloom , E. Bonamente , A. W. Borgland , A. Bouvier , J. Bregeon , A. Brez , M. Brigida , P. Bruel , T. H. Burnett , S. Buson , G. A. Caliandro , R. A. Cameron , P. A. Caraveo , S. Carrigan , J. M. Casandjian , C. Cecchi , O. C. Elik , A. Chekhtman , C. C. Cheung , J. Chiang , S. Ciprini , R. Claus , J. Cohen-Tanugi , J. Conrad , S. Cutini , C. D. Dermer , A. de Angelis , F. de Palma , S. W. Digel , E. do Couto e Silva , P. S. Drell , R. Dubois , D. Dumora , Y. Edmonds , C. Farnier , C. Favuzzi , S. J. Fegan , W. B. Focke , P. Fortin , M. Frailis , Y. Fukazawa , P. Fusco , F. Gargano , D. Gasparrini , N. Gehrels , S. Germani , N. Giglietto , F. Giordano , T. Glanzman , G. Godfrey , J. E. Grove , L. Guillemot , S. Guiriec , M. Gustafsson , D. Hadasch , A. K. Harding , D. Horan , R. E. Hughes , A. S. Johnson , W. N. Johnson , T. Kamae , H. Katagiri , J. Kataoka , N. Kawai , M. Kerr , J. Knodlseder , M. Kuss , J. Lande , L. Latronico , M. Llena Garde , F. Longo , F. Loparco , B. Lott , M. N. Lovellette , P. Lubrano , A. Makeev , M. N. Mazziotta , J. E. McEnery , C. Meurer , P. F. Michelson , W. Mitthumsiri , T. Mizuno , C. Monte , M. E. Monzani , A. Morselli , I. V. Moskalenko , S. Murgia , P. L. Nolan , J. P. Norris , E. Nuss , T. Ohsugi , N. Omodei , E. Orlando , J. F. Ormes , D. Paneque , J. H. Panetta , D. Parent , V. Pelassa , M. Pepe , M. Pesce-Rollins , F. Piron , S. Raino , R. Rando , A. Reimer , O. Reimer , T. Reposeur , A. Y. Rodriguez , M. Roth , H. F. W. Sadrozinski , A. Sander , P. M. Saz Parkinson , J. D. Scargle , A. Sellerholm , C. Sgro , E. J. Siskind , P. D. Smith , G. Spandre , P. Spinelli , J. L. Starck , M. S. Strickman , D. J. Suson , H. Takahashi , T. Tanaka , J. B. Thayer , J. G. Thayer , D. F. Torres , Y. Uchiyama , T. L. Usher , V. Vasileiou , N. Vilchez , V. Vitale , A. P. Waite , P. Wang , B. L. Winer , K. S. Wood , T. Ylinen , G. Zaharijas , M. Ziegle

We consider regions of the parameter space of the Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model (MSSM) with bino-like neutralino dark matter in which a large fraction of the total dark matter annihilation cross section in the present era arises…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-08-09 Jason Kumar , Pearl Sandick

Recent radio observations have obtained stringent constraints for annihilating dark matter. In this article, we use the radio continuum spectral data of the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) to analyze the dark matter annihilation signals. We…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-08-15 Man Ho Chan , Chak Man Lee

The apparent gamma-ray excess in the Galactic center region and inner Galaxy has attracted considerable interest, notably because both its spectrum and radial distribution are consistent with an interpretation in terms of annihilating dark…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-12-03 Torsten Bringmann , Martin Vollmann , Christoph Weniger

We compute the electromagnetic radiative corrections to all leading annihilation processes which may occur in the Galactic dark matter halo, for dark matter in the framework of supersymmetric extensions of the Standard Model (MSSM and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 Torsten Bringmann , Lars Bergstrom , Joakim Edsjo

Brown dwarfs (BDs) are celestial objects representing the link between the least massive main-sequence stars and giant gas planets. In the first part of this article, we perform a model-independent search of a gamma-ray signal from the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-07-23 Pooja Bhattacharjee , Francesca Calore , Pasquale Dario Serpico

We study the prospects for detecting gamma-rays from decaying Dark Matter (DM), focusing in particular on gravitino DM in R-parity breaking vacua. Given the substantially different angular distribution of the predicted gamma-ray signal with…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-01-06 Gianfranco Bertone , Wilfried Buchmuller , Laura Covi , Alejandro Ibarra

We consider an extension of the Standard Model by a singlet scalar that accounts for the dark matter of the Universe. Within this model we compute the expected gamma ray flux from the annihilation of dark matter particles in a consistent…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-03-27 Carlos E. Yaguna

We study diffuse gamma-ray emission at intermediate Galactic latitudes measured by the Fermi Large Area Telescope with the aim of searching for a signal from dark matter annihilation or decay. In the absence of a robust dark matter signal,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-04-10 G. Zaharijas , J. Conrad , A. Cuoco , Z. Yang

Annihilation of Dark Matter usually produces together with gamma rays comparable amounts of electrons and positrons. The e+e- gyrating in the galactic magnetic field then produce secondary synchrotron radiation which thus provides an…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-08-19 Enrico Borriello , Alessandro Cuoco , Gennaro Miele

Recently, some very tight constraints of annihilating dark matter have been obtained from gamma-ray data of the Milky Way and Milky Way dwarf spheroidal satellite galaxies. In this article, we report that there are two excellent galaxy…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-11-15 Man Ho Chan , Chung Hei Leung