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We calculate the flux of cosmic positrons from the dark matter annihilation in the littlest Higgs model with T-parity. The dark matter annihilates mainly into weak gauge bosons in the halo, and high energy positrons are produced through…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 Masaki Asano , Shigeki Matsumoto , Nobuchika Okada , Yasuhiro Okada

The spectrum and morphology of gamma-rays from the Galactic Center and the spectrum of synchrotron emission observed from the Milky Way's radio filaments have each been interpreted as possible signals of $\sim$7-10 GeV dark matter particles…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-05-30 Dan Hooper , Wei Xue

It has recently been argued that the PAMELA, ATIC and PPB-BETS data showing an anomalous excess of high-energy cosmic ray positrons and electrons might be explained by dark matter annihilating in the Galactic halo with a cross section…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-05 Francis-Yan Cyr-Racine , Stefano Profumo , Kris Sigurdson

Precision measurements of the positron flux in cosmic ray have revealed an unexplained bump in the spectrum around $E\simeq 300\,\mathrm{GeV}$, not clearly attributable to known astrophysical processes. We propose annihilation of dark…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-06-11 Anirban Das , Basudeb Dasgupta , Anupam Ray

Recently the PAMELA satellite-based experiment reported an excess of galactic positrons that could be a signal of annihilating dark matter. The PAMELA data may admit an interpretation as a signal from a wino-like LSP of mass about 200 GeV,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-04-15 Phill Grajek , Gordon Kane , Dan Phalen , Aaron Pierce , Scott Watson

Recent measurements of cosmic-ray electron and positron fluxes by PAMELA and ATIC experiments may indicate the existence of annihilating dark matter with large annihilation cross section. We discuss its possible relation to other…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-11-15 Kazunori Nakayama

Motivated by the anomalous positron flux recently reported by the PAMELA collaboration, we study the cosmic-ray positron produced by the pair annihilation and the decay of superparticle dark matter. We calculate the cosmic-ray positron flux…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-05-13 Koji Ishiwata , Shigeki Matsumoto , Takeo Moroi

Recent results from the PAMELA satellite indicate the presence of a large flux of positrons (relative to electrons) in the cosmic ray spectrum between approximately 10 and 100 GeV. As annihilating dark matter particles in many models are…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-04-15 Dan Hooper , Pasquale Blasi , Pasquale Dario Serpico

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

The recent report by the PAMELA team of the observed rise in the cosmic-ray positron fraction above a few GeV and the report of an excess of cosmic-ray electrons around a few hundred GeV by the ATIC collaboration has resulted in a flurry of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2009-05-05 Michael Schubnell

It has been proposed that the excess in cosmic ray positrons at approximately 8 GeV, observed on both flights of the HEAT balloon experiment, may be associated with the annihilation of dark matter within the Milky Way halo. In this paper we…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Daniel T. Cumberbatch , Joseph Silk

We show that the cosmic-ray positron excess measured by PAMELA and AMS could be induced by Dark Matter annihilations in a local over-density. In such a context leptophilic DM is not needed and good fits to positron data, in agreement with…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-16 A. Hektor , M. Raidal , A. Strumia , E. Tempel

The detection of gamma-rays, antiprotons and positrons due to pair annihilation of dark matter particles in the Milky Way halo is a viable indirect technique to search for signatures of supersymmetric dark matter where the major challenge…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-02-17 Aldo Morselli , Igor V. Moskalenko

The positron excess in cosmic rays has stimulated a lot of interests in the last decade. The dark matter origin of the extra positrons has attracted great attention. However, the $\gamma$-ray search set very stringent constraints on the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-11-07 Xing-Jian Lv , Xiao-Jun Bi , Kun Fang , Peng-Fei Yin , Meng-Jie Zhao

Multiple lines of evidence indicate an anomalous injection of high-energy e+- in the Galactic halo. The recent $e^+$ fraction spectrum from the Payload for Antimatter Matter Exploration and Light-nuclei Astrophysics (PAMELA) shows a sharp…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-12-30 Ilias Cholis , Gregory Dobler , Douglas P. Finkbeiner , Lisa Goodenough , Neal Weiner

Recently, dark matter indirect searches have gained a lot of attention, mostly due to the possibility of recent anomalies in cosmic rays and microwave sky maps being due to the annihilation or decay of dark matter. In this thesis, we argue…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2010-12-21 Philipp Mertsch

Dark Matter annihilation (DMA) may yield an excess of gamma rays and antimatter particles, like antiprotons and positrons, above the background from cosmic ray interactions. The excess of diffuse Galactic Gamma Rays from EGRET shows all the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-05-13 W. de Boer

The recent positron excess observed in the PAMELA satellite experiment strengthens previous experimental findings. We give here an analysis of this excess in the framework of the Stueckelberg extension of the standard model which includes…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-03-24 Daniel Feldman , Zuowei Liu , Pran Nath

We investigate the production of electrons and positrons in the Milky Way within the context of dark matter annihilation. Upper limits on the relevant cross-section are obtained by combining observational data at different wavelengths (from…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-05-06 Maneenate Wechakama , Yago Ascasibar

Numerical simulations of dark matter collapse and structure formation show that in addition to a large halo surrounding the baryonic component of our galaxy, there also exists a significant number of subhalos that extend hundreds of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-04-22 James M. Cline , Aaron C. Vincent , Wei Xue