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We discuss the visibility of gamma lines from dark matter annihilation. We point out a class of theories for dark matter which predict the existence of gamma lines with striking features. In these theories, the final state radiation…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-12-18 Pavel Fileviez Perez , Clara Murgui

We revisit constraints on small-scale primordial power from annihilation signals from dark matter minihalos. Using gamma rays and neutrinos from extragalactic minihalos and assuming the delta-function primordial spectrum, we show the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-02-07 Tomohiro Nakama , Teruaki Suyama , Kazunori Kohri , Nagisa Hiroshima

The diffuse gamma ray emission from astrophysical backgrounds in our Galaxy and the signal due to the annihilation or decay of Dark Matter (DM) in the Galactic Halo are expected to have a substantially different morphology and spectral…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-14 Gabrijela Zaharijas , Alessandro Cuoco , Zhaoyu Yang , Jan Conrad

Existence of new gauge U(1) symmetry possessed by dark matter (DM) particles implies the existence of a new Coulomb-like interaction, which leads to Sommerfeld-Gamow-Sakharov enhancement of dark matter annihilation at low relative…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-10-01 K. Belotsky , M. Khlopov , A. Kirillov

The central region of the dark matter halo of the Milky Way is a promising target for a search for a particle dark matter annihilation signal. The H.E.S.S. Collaboration has published a search for a photon flux originating from dark matter…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-03-06 Gerrit Spengler , Ullrich Schwanke

The CACTUS experiment recently observed a gamma ray excess above 50 GeV from the direction of the Draco dwarf spheroidal galaxy. Considering that Draco is dark matter dominated the gamma rays may be generated through dark matter…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-09-13 Xiao-Jun Bi , Hong-Bo Hu , Xinmin Zhang

A range of experimental results point to the existence of a massive neutrino. The recent high precision measurements of the cosmic microwave background and the large scale surveys of galaxies can be used to place an upper bound on this…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-12 C. Zunckel , P. G Ferreira

If dark matter in the form of compact objects comprises a large fraction of the mass of the universe, then gravitational lensing effects on gamma-ray bursts are expected. We utilize BATSE and Ulysses data to search for lenses of different…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 G. F. Marani , R. J. Nemiroff , J. P. Norris , K. Hurley , J. T. Bonnell

The spectrum of an isotropic extragalactic $\gamma$-ray background (EGB) has been measured by the Fermi-LAT telescope at high latitudes. Two new models for the EGB are derived from the subtraction of unresolved point sources and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-03 F. Donato , F. Calore , V. De Romeri

Measurements of the cosmic ray antiproton spectrum can be used to search for contributions from annihilating dark matter and to constrain the dark matter annihilation cross section. Depending on the assumptions made regarding cosmic ray…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-03-19 Dan Hooper , Tim Linden , Philipp Mertsch

We use the latest cosmic microwave background (CMB) observations to provide updated constraints on the dark matter lifetime as well as on p-wave suppressed annihilation cross sections in the 1 MeV to 1 TeV mass range. In contrast to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-02-17 Roberta Diamanti , Laura Lopez-Honorez , Olga Mena , Sergio Palomares-Ruiz , Aaron C. Vincent

(Abridged) We compare recent results from X-ray, strong lensing, weak lensing, and optical observations with numerical simulations of the merging galaxy cluster 1E0657-56. X-ray observations reveal a bullet-like subcluster with a prominent…

Some recent studies have examined the gamma-ray flux profile of our Galaxy to determine the signal of dark matter annihilation. However, the results are controversial and no confirmation is obtained. In this article, we study the radio flux…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-04-13 Man Ho Chan , Chu Fai Yeung , Lang Cui , Chun Sing Leung

The best upper bounds on the masses of stable and unstable light neutrinos derive from the upper bound on the total mass density, as inferred from the lower limit $t_0> 13$ Gyr on the dynamical age of the Universe: If the Universe is…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 Sidney A. Bludman

We used radio observations of the neighbour galaxy M31 in order to put constraints on dark matter particle mass and annihilation cross section. Dark matter annihilation in M31 halo produces highly energetic leptons, which emit synchrotron…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 A. E. Egorov , E. Pierpaoli

Neutron stars (NSs) can be used to constrain dark matter (DM) since a NS can transform into a black hole (BH) if it captures sufficient DM particles and exceeds the Chandrasekhar limit. We extend earlier work and for the first time take…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-08-14 Dicong Liang , Lijing Shao

We set conservative, robust constraints on the annihilation and decay of dark matter into various Standard Model final states under various assumptions about the distribution of the dark matter in the Milky Way halo. We use the inclusive…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-05-04 Andrea Massari , Eder Izaguirre , Rouven Essig , Andrea Albert , Elliott Bloom , German A. Gomez-Vargas

Dark Matter annihilation or decay can affect the anisotropy of the cosmic microwave background (CMB). Therefore, the CMB data can be used to constrain the properties of a dark matter particle. In this work, we use the new CMB data obtained…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Yupeng Yang

We derive bounds on the dark matter annihilation cross-section for low-mass (5-20 GeV) dark matter annihilating primarily to up or down quarks, using the Fermi-LAT bound on gamma-rays from Milky Way satellites. For models in which dark…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-05-30 Jason Kumar , David Sanford , Louis E. Strigari

In this paper, we will discuss a specific case that the dark matter particles annihilate into right-handed neutrinos. We calculate the predicted gamma-ray excess from the galactic center and compare our results with the data from the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-03-10 Yi-Lei Tang , Shou-hua Zhu