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It is commonly assumed that dark matter may be composed of one or at most a few elementary particles. PAMELA data present a window of opportunity into a possible relationship between luminous and dark matter. Along with ATIC data the two…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-11-18 Paul H. Frampton , Pham Q. Hung

We propose a comprehensive theory of dark matter that explains the recent proliferation of unexpected observations in high-energy astrophysics. Cosmic ray spectra from ATIC and PAMELA require a WIMP with mass M_chi ~ 500 - 800 GeV that…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-02-26 Nima Arkani-Hamed , Douglas P. Finkbeiner , Tracy R. Slatyer , Neal Weiner

The BESS-Polar collaboration has recently performed a precise measurement of the local antiproton flux which is consistent with a pure secondary production of antiprotons. We constrain a possible primary component originating from dark…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-05-30 Rolf Kappl , Martin Wolfgang Winkler

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

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 excess in the positron fraction reported by the PAMELA collaboration has been interpreted as due to annihilation or decay of dark matter in the Galaxy. More prosaically, it has been ascribed to direct production of positrons by nearby…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2009-09-02 Philipp Mertsch , Subir Sarkar

The excess of cosmic-ray electron and positron fluxes measured by the PAMELA satellite and ATIC balloon experiments may be interpreted as the signals of the dark matter annihilation or decay into leptons. In this letter we show that the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-04-30 Junji Hisano , Masahiro Kawasaki , Kazunori Kohri , Kazunori Nakayama

We consider a scenario within the Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model extended by a singlet chiral superfield, in which neutralino dark matter annihilates to light singlet-like Higgs bosons, which proceed to decay to either…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-29 Dan Hooper , Tim M. P. Tait

The overabundance of high-energy cosmic positrons, observed by PAMELA and AMS-02, can be considered as the consequence of dark matter decays or annihilations. We show that recent FERMI/LAT measurements of the isotropic diffuse gamma-ray…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-07-11 Maxim Laletin

Recent PAMELA and ATIC data seem to indicate an excess in positron cosmic rays above approximately 10 GeV which might be due to galactic Dark Matter particle annihilation. However the background of this signal suffers many uncertainties…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-05-20 Timur Delahaye , Pierre Brun , Fiorenza Donato , Nicolao Fornengo , Julien Lavalle , Roberto Lineros , Richard Taillet , Pierre Salati

Assuming that the positron excess in PAMELA satellite data is a consequence of annihilations of cold dark matter, we consider from a model-independent perspective if the data show a preference for the spin of dark matter. We then perform a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-04-06 V. Barger , W. -Y. Keung , D. Marfatia , G. Shaughnessy

The PAMELA satellite has observed an excess in the positron to electron ratio above theoretical predictions in the range 10 - 100 GeV that increases with energy. We propose that the excess is not due to a change in the local interstellar…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2012-11-06 J. P. Roberts

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

The possibility of explaining the positron and electron excess recently found by the PAMELA and ATIC collaborations in terms of dark matter (DM) annihilation has attracted considerable attention. Models surviving bounds from, e.g,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-04-15 Lars Bergstrom , Gianfranco Bertone , Torsten Bringmann , Joakim Edsjo , Marco Taoso

Since the PAMELA results on the "anomalously" high positron fraction and the lack of antiproton excess in our Galaxy, there has been a tremendous number of studies advocating new types of dark matter, with larger couplings to electrons than…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-11-20 Celine Boehm , Timur Delahaye , Pierre Salati , Florian Staub , Ritesh K. Singh

Recently the PAMELA experiment has released its updated anti-proton flux and anti-proton to proton flux ratio data up to energies of ~200GeV. With no clear excess of cosmic ray anti-protons at high energies, one can extend constraints on…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2011-09-28 Ilias Cholis

Satellite data is accumulating that suggests and constrains dark matter physics. We argue there is a very well motivated theoretical preexisting framework consistent with dark matter annihilation being observed by the PAMELA satellite…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2009-11-13 Gordon Kane , Ran Lu , Scott Watson

We calculate the extragalactic diffuse emission originating from the up-scattering of cosmic microwave photons by energetic electrons and positrons produced in particle dark matter annihilation events at all redshifts and in all halos. We…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2009-07-22 Stefano Profumo , Tesla E. Jeltema

Fermi measurements of the high-latitude gamma-ray background strongly constrain a decaying-dark-matter origin for the 1--100 GeV Galactic positron anomaly measured with PAMELA. Inverse-Compton scattering of the microwave background by the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-14 Martin Pohl , David Eichler

The AMS experiment onboard the International Space Station has recently provided cosmic ray electron and positron data with unprecedented precision in the range from 0.5 to 350 GeV. The observed rise in the positron fraction at energies…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-10-29 Lars Bergstrom , Torsten Bringmann , Ilias Cholis , Dan Hooper , Christoph Weniger