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We show that a general semi-annihilation scenario, in which a pair of dark matter (DM) particles annihilate to an anti-DM, and an unstable state that can mix with or decay to standard model states, can lead to particle anti-particle…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-10-21 Avirup Ghosh , Deep Ghosh , Satyanarayan Mukhopadhyay

Monochromatic gamma ray lines have long been known to provide potential smoking gun signals for annihilating dark matter. Here, we demonstrate that the situation is particularly interesting for Kaluza-Klein dark matter because resonant…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-10-13 Chiara Arina , Torsten Bringmann , Joseph Silk , Martin Vollmann

One way to unambiguously confirm the existence of particle dark matter and determine its mass would be to detect its annihilation into monochromatic gamma-rays in upcoming telescopes. One of the most minimal models for dark matter is the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Michael Gustafsson , Erik Lundstrom , Lars Bergstrom , Joakim Edsjo

We explore the properties of dark matter in theories with two universal extra dimensions, where the lightest Kaluza-Klein state is a spin-0 neutral particle, representing a six-dimensional photon polarized along the extra dimensions.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-11-18 Bogdan A. Dobrescu , Dan Hooper , Kyoungchul Kong , Rakhi Mahbubani

The Weakly Interacting Massive Particles(WIMPs) have long been the favored CDM candidate in the standard $\Lambda$CDM model. However, owing to great improvement in the experimental sensitivity in the past decade, some parameter space of the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-11-15 Abineet Parichha , Shiv Sethi

Although searches for dark matter have lasted for decades, no convincing signal has been found without ambiguity in underground detections, cosmic ray observations, and collider experiments. We show by example that gravitational wave (GW)…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-07-26 Bo-Qiang Lu , Cheng-Wei Chiang , Da Huang

The problem of the dark matter in the universe is reviewed. A short history of the subject is given, and several of the most obvious particle candidates for dark matter are identified. Particular focus is given to weakly interacting,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2012-06-15 Lars Bergström

We study the $\gamma$-ray signal emitted from dark matter (DM) pair annihilation in the Higgs portal Majorana fermion DM model. In the model, a Majorana fermion DM $\chi$ couples with the Standard Model (SM) Higgs field $H$ through a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-07-04 Naoyuki Haba , Junpei Ikemoto , Shimizu Yasuhiro , Toshifumi Yamada

We compare the measured angular cross-correlation between the Fermi-LAT gamma-ray sky and catalogues of extra-galactic objects with the expected signal induced by weakly interacting massive particle (WIMP) dark matter (DM). We include a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-10-20 Alessandro Cuoco , Jun-Qing Xia , Marco Regis , Enzo Branchini , Nicolao Fornengo , Matteo Viel

The possibility to use $\gamma$--ray data from the Galactic Center (GC) to constrain the cosmological evolution of the Universe in a phase prior to primordial nucleosyntesis, namely around the time of cold dark matter (CDM) decoupling, is…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-10-27 F. Donato , N. Fornengo , M. Schelke

Arguably, the most popular candidate for Dark Matter (DM) is a massive, stable, Majorana fermion. However, annihilation of Majorana DM to two fermions features a helicity-suppressed s-wave rate. The process radiating a gauge boson via…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-08-08 Thomas J. Weiler

Kaluza-Klein photon in universal extra dimension models is one of the most attractive dark matter candidates as a weakly interacting massive particle. Having a characteristic split spectrum in split universal extra dimension the relic…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-09-01 Chuan-Ren Chen , Mihoko M. Nojiri , Seong Chan Park , Jing Shu

The introduction of electroweak multiplets that transform under any representation of the standard $SU(2)_L$ gauge group suggests the existence of electrically neutral stable particles capable of serving as cold dark matter in the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-12-06 Patricio Escalona , Sebastián Acevedo , Paulo Areyuna , Gonzalo Benítez-Irarrázabal , Pablo Solar , Alfonso Zerwekh

Dark matter (DM) annihilation could in principle contribute to the diffuse cosmic gamma-ray back- ground (CGB). While with standard assumptions for cosmological and particle physics parameters this contribution is expected to be rather…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-04-30 Marco Taoso , Shin'ichiro Ando , Gianfranco Bertone , Stefano Profumo

We propose a new mechanism where asymmetric dark matter (ADM) and the baryon asymmetry are both generated in the same decay chain of a metastable weakly interacting massive particle (WIMP) after its thermal freeze-out. Dark matter and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-12-11 Yanou Cui , Michael Shamma

If dark matter consists of weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs), annihilation of WIMPs in the galactic center may lead to an observable enhancement of high energy gamma ray fluxes. We predict the shape and normalization of the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-09-06 Andreas Birkedal , Konstantin T. Matchev , Maxim Perelstein , Andrew Spray

Indications for a gamma-ray line(s) signal towards the Galactic center at an energy of about 130 GeV have been recently presented. While dark matter annihilations are a viable candidate for this signal, it is generally expected that such a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2012-11-15 Ilias Cholis , Maryam Tavakoli , Piero Ullio

We extend the Standard Model by adding two gauge-singlet $\mathbb{Z}_{2}$% -symmetric scalar fields that interact with visible matter only through the Higgs particle. One is a stable dark matter WIMP, and the other one undergoes a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-06-07 Abdessamad Abada , Salah Nasri , Djamal Ghaffor

This thesis explores experimental and theoretical approaches to dark matter detection, from gas-based detectors to quantum sensors, tackling the challenge of identifying dark matter, which makes up 27% of the Universe's energy. It reviews…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-05 David Díez-Ibáñez

Cold dark matter may be made of superweakly-interacting massive particles, superWIMPs, that naturally inherit the desired relic density from late decays of metastable WIMPs. Well-motivated examples are weak-scale gravitinos in supergravity…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 Jonathan L. Feng , Arvind Rajaraman , Fumihiro Takayama