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Thermal dark matter that couples more strongly to electrons and photons than to neutrinos will heat the electron-photon plasma relative to the neutrino background if it becomes nonrelativistic after the neutrinos decouple from the thermal…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-05-30 Chiu Man Ho , Robert J. Scherrer

Recent gamma-ray and radio observations provide stringent constraints for annihilating dark matter. The current $2\sigma$ lower limits of dark matter mass can be constrained to $\sim 100$ GeV for thermal relic annihilation cross section. In…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-01-05 Man Ho Chan , Chak Man Lee

The generation of an early kination dominated era within a tracking quintessential model is investigated, the relic density of the Weakly Interacting Massive Particles (WIMPs) is calculated and we show that it can be enhanced with respect…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-07-27 C. Pallis

The PICASSO experiment at SNOLAB reports new results for spin-dependent WIMP interactions on $^{19}$F using the superheated droplet technique. A new generation of detectors and new features which enable background discrimination via the…

The potential of LC+HERAp based Gamma-p collider to probe WW-Gamma vertex is presented through the discussion of sensitivity to anomalous couplings and P_T distribution of the final quark. The limits of -0.04<\Delta\kappa<0.04 and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-31 S. Atag , I. T. Cakir

An energy threshold of (220+-10) eV was achieved at an efficiency of 50% with a four-channel ultra-low-energy germanium detector each with an active mass of 5 g. This provides a unique probe to WIMP dark matter with mass below 10 GeV. With…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2009-03-24 TEXONO Collaboration , S. T. Lin

In the past decade, gamma-ray observations and radio observations put strong constraints on the parameters of dark matter annihilation. In this article, we suggest another robust way to constrain the parameters of dark matter annihilation.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-08-09 Man Ho Chan

Excitation of multicomponent dark matter in the galactic center has been proposed as the source of low-energy positrons that produce the excess 511 keV gamma rays that have been observed by INTEGRAL. Such models have also been promoted to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-05-28 James M. Cline

We extract the positron and electron fluxes in the energy range 10 - 100 GeV by combining the recent data from PAMELA and Fermi LAT. The {\it absolute positron and electron} fluxes thus obtained are found to obey the power laws: $E^{-2.65}$…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-19 C. Balázs , N. Sahu , A. Mazumdar

We present limits on the WIMP-nucleon cross section for inelastic dark matter derived from the 2008 run of ZEPLIN-III. Cuts, notably on scintillation pulse shape and scintillation-to-ionisation ratio, give a net exposure of 63 kg.days in…

The public data from the EGRET space telescope on diffuse Galactic gamma rays in the energy range from 0.1 to 10 GeV are reanalyzed with the purpose of searching for signals of Dark Matter annihilation (DMA). The analysis confirms the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 W. de Boer , C. Sander , V. Zhukov , A. V. Gladyshev , D. I. Kazakov

Dark Matter annihilations after recombination and during the epoch of structure formation deposit energy in the primordial intergalactic medium, producing reionization and heating. We investigate the constraints that are imposed by the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-20 Marco Cirelli , Fabio Iocco , Paolo Panci

Searches for Dark Matter (DM) particles with indirect detection techniques have reached important milestones with the precise measurements of the anti-proton and gamma-ray spectra, notably by the PAMELA and FERMI-LAT experiments. While the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-11 Genevieve Belanger , Celine Boehm , Marco Cirelli , Jonathan Da Silva , Alexander Pukhov

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

The diffuse galactic EGRET gamma ray data show a clear excess for energies above 1 GeV in comparison with the expectations from conventional galactic models. The excess is seen with the same spectrum in all sky directions, as expected for…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-10 W. de Boer

We examine the projected ability to reconstruct the mass, scattering, and annihilation cross section of dark matter in the new generation of large underground detectors, XENON-1T, SuperCDMS, and DarkSide-G2, in combination with diffuse…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-31 Leszek Roszkowski , Enrico Maria Sessolo , Sebastian Trojanowski , Andrew J. Williams

The diffuse galactic EGRET gamma ray data show a clear excess for energies above 1 GeV in comparison with the expectations from conventional galactic models. This excess shows all the features expected from Dark Matter WIMP Annihilation:…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-09-29 W. de Boer , I. Gebauer , C. Sander , M. Weber , V. Zhukov

Dark matter which interacts through a magnetic or electric dipole moment is an interesting possibility which may help to resolve the discrepancy between the DAMA annual modulation signal and the null results of other searches. In this…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-05-30 Jean-François Fortin , Tim M. P. Tait

We consider constraints on primordial black holes (PBHs) in the mass range $( 10^{-18}\text{-}10^{15} )\,M_{\odot}$ if the dark matter (DM) comprises weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs) which form halos around them and generate…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-07-29 Bernard Carr , Florian Kuhnel , Luca Visinelli

In this work we combine information from relic abundance, direct detection, cosmic microwave background, positron fraction, gamma rays, and colliders to explore the existing constraints on couplings between Dark Matter and Standard Model…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-04-20 Mattias Blennow , Pilar Coloma , Enrique Fernandez-Martinez , Pedro A. N. Machado , Bryan Zaldivar