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Positron excess upto energies $\sim$350 GeV has been observed by AMS-02 result and it is consistent with the positron excess observed by PAMELA upto 100 GeV. There is no observed excess of anti-protons over the expected CR background. We…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-16 Moumita Das , Subhendra Mohanty

If dark matter is composed of new fundamental particles, Earth's orbital motion around the Sun may induce an annual modulation in the rate at which these particles interact in a terrestrial detector. The DAMA collaboration has identified at…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-10-27 Douglas Q. Adams , Sunniva Jacobsen , Chris Kelso

Minimal atomic dark matter with its distinctive cooling mechanisms offers an instructive framework for understanding the potential impact of dark matter on small-scale structure formation and early cosmology. The model consists of two…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-02-12 Jared Barron , Rouven Essig , Megan H. McDuffie , Jesús Pérez-Ríos , Gregory Suczewski

Dark matter particles annihilating into Standard Model fermions may be able to explain the recent observation of a gamma-ray excess in the direction of the Galactic Center. Recently, a hidden photon model has been proposed to explain this…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-04 Samuel D. McDermott

We present a model of dark matter in a warped extra dimension in which the dark sector mass scales are naturally generated without supersymmetry. The dark force, responsible for dark matter annihilating predominantly into leptons, is…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-05-27 Tony Gherghetta , Benedict von Harling

We investigate a simple model where Lepton number is promoted to a local $U(1)_L$ gauge symmetry which is then spontaneously broken, leading to a viable thermal DM candidate and vector-like leptons as a byproduct. The dark matter arises as…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-15 Pedro Schwaller , Tim M. P. Tait , Roberto Vega-Morales

A series of experiments measuring high-energy cosmic rays have recently reported strong indications for the existence of an excess of high-energy electrons and positrons. If interpreted in terms of the decay of dark matter particles, the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-01-15 Alejandro Ibarra , David Tran , Christoph Weniger

The cosmic ray data of PAMELA/ATIC may be explained by dark matter decay with a decay rate $\tau_{DM}^{-1}\sim 10^{-26}{sec}^{-1} \sim 10^{-45}{eV}$, an energy scale which could not be understood within the framework of the standard model…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-09-11 Hiroki Fukuoka , Jisuke Kubo , Daijiro Suematsu

In this letter, we study the possibility that Kaluza-Klein dark matter in a model with one universal extra dimension is responsible for the recent observations of the PAMELA and ATIC experiments. In this model, the dark matter particles…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-04-21 Dan Hooper , Kathryn Zurek

We consider an electro-weak scale model for Dark Matter (DM) and radiative neutrino mass generation. Despite the leptophilic nature of DM with no direct couplings to quarks and gluons, scattering with nuclei is induced at the 1-loop level…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-08-19 Daniel Schmidt , Thomas Schwetz , Takashi Toma

Dark matter in the form of particles from a hidden mirror sector has recently been proposed as an explanation for the DAMA annual modulation signal. Here one assumes that there exists a small mixing between photons and mirror photons. We…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Saibal Mitra

We propose a minimal model where a dark sector, odd under a $\mathcal{Z}_2$ discrete symmetry, is the seed of lepton number violation in the neutrino sector at the loop level, in the context of the linear seesaw mechanism. Neutrino mass…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-07-19 A. Batra , H. B. Câmara , F. R. Joaquim

We present a scenario where dark matter is in the form of dark atoms that can accomodate the experimentally observed excess of positrons in PAMELA and AMS-02 while being compatible with the constraints imposed on the gamma-ray flux from…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 Konstantin Belotsky , Maxim Khlopov , Chris Kouvaris , Maxim Laletin

We present a minimal framework of $U(1)_{B-L}$ gauge extension of the Standard Model explaining dark matter abundance and matter-antimatter asymmetry simultaneously through an attractive mechanism of TeV scale WIMPy leptogenesis, testable…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-05-05 Arnab Dasgupta , Chandan Hati , Sudhanwa Patra , Utpal Sarkar

Astrophysical and cosmological observations do not require the dark matter particles to be absolutely stable. If they are indeed unstable, their decay into positrons might occur at a sufficiently large rate to allow the indirect detection…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-05-05 Alejandro Ibarra , David Tran

The nature of dark matter (DM) particles and the mechanism that provides their measured relic abundance are currently unknown. In this paper we investigate inert scalar and vector like fermion doublet DM candidates with a charge asymmetry…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-05-30 Chiara Arina , Narendra Sahu

The particle origin of dark matter (DM) remains elusive despite decades of direct, indirect, and collider searches. Several groups have reported a $\gamma$-ray excess toward the Galactic Centre, commonly referred to as the Galactic Centre…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-12-01 Jordan Koechler , Mattia Di Mauro

We present Minimal Dark Matter and its univocal predictions for Dark Matter observables. During the idm2008 conference, PAMELA presented preliminary results showing an excess in the positron fraction: we find a good agreement, with a modest…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-10-30 Marco Cirelli , Alessandro Strumia

Dark matter (DM) is usually assumed to be stabilized by a symmetry, which is mostly considered to be $Z_2$. For example, in supersymmetry it is $R$ parity, i.e. $(-1)^{3B+L+2j}$. However, it may be $Z_n$ or $U(1)_D$, and derivable from…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-04-28 Ernest Ma

It is well known that the dark matter dominates the dynamics of galaxies and clusters of galaxies. Its constituents remain a mystery despite an assiduous search for them over the past three decades. Recent results from the satellite-based…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2011-06-07 Debtosh Chowdhury , Chanda J. Jog , Sudhir K Vempati