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Recent results from the PAMELA experiment indicate an excess in the positron spectrum above 10 GeV, but anti-proton data are consistent with the expected astrophysical backgrounds. We propose a scenario that reproduces these features. Dark…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-09-24 Daniel J. Phalen , Aaron Pierce , Neal Weiner

We investigate the prospects for probing asymmetric dark matter models through their gravitational wave signatures. We concentrate on a theory extending the Standard Model gauge symmetry by a non-Abelian group, under which leptons form…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-01-03 Bartosz Fornal , Erika Pierre

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

Dark matter might reside in a hidden sector which contains an unbroken $U(1)'$ gauge interaction kinetically mixed with standard $U(1)_Y$. Mirror dark matter provides a well motivated example of such a theory. We show that the DAMA, CoGeNT…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-11-08 R. Foot

We reconsider Sommerfeld-enhanced annihilation of dark matter (DM) into leptons to explain PAMELA and Fermi electron and positron observations, in light of possible new effects from substructure. There is strong tension between getting a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-12-23 Aaron C Vincent , Wei Xue , James M Cline

The aim of the current work is a detailed time-series analysis of the data from Dark Matter direct detection experiments as well as related datasets. We examine recent claims that the cosmic ray muon flux can be responsible for generating…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-03-19 Spencer Chang , Josef Pradler , Itay Yavin

We propose that dark matter is dominantly comprised of atomic bound states. We build a simple model and map the parameter space that results in the early universe formation of hydrogen-like dark atoms. We find that atomic dark matter has…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-05-14 David E. Kaplan , Gordan Z. Krnjaic , Keith R. Rehermann , Christopher M. Wells

I comment on the proposal that the stability of dark matter may be due to an unbroken Z_2 symmetry contained in the partially broken lepton flavour symmetry group. I remark that (1) there is no Z_2 symmetry apparent in the lepton mass…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-05-30 L. Lavoura

We explore $U(1)_{L_e-L_\mu}$ gauge extension of the Standard Model with particle content enlarged by three neutral fermions, of which the lightest one contributes to dark matter content of the Universe. The scalar sector is enriched with a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-05-29 Manas Kumar Mohapatra , Shivaramakrishna Singirala , Dhiren Panda , Rukmani Mohanta

We propose a new flavor model that can simlutaneously well-describe the indirect detection experiment of (decaying) dark matter in the cosmic-ray, with the binary icosahedral group A'_5. We show not only that the A'_{5} symmetry can derive…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-10-18 Kenji Hashimoto , Hiroshi Okada

We consider a minimal Dark Matter model with just two additional states, a Dark Matter Majorana fermion and a colored or electroweakly charged scalar, without introducing any symmetry to stabilize the DM state. We identify the parameter…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-16 Giorgio Arcadi , Laura Covi

We show that a scalar and a fermion charged under a global U(1) symmetry can not only explain the existence and abundance of dark matter (DM) and dark radiation (DR), but also imbue DM with improved scattering properties at galactic scales,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-10-21 Xiaoyong Chu , Basudeb Dasgupta

The DAMA annual modulation signature, interpreted as evidence for a spin-independent WIMP coupling, seems in conflict with null results from CDMS. However, in models of ``inelastic dark matter'', the experiments are compatible. Inelastic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 David R. Smith , Neal Weiner

Left-Right Symmetric theory has proved to be one of the most successful models in explaining the origin of neutrino mass and mixings, and the phenomenological origin of neutrinoless double beta decay, lepton flavor violation as well as…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-03-26 Ankita Kakoti

It is shown that the DAMA data indicate two dark matter components, one that circulates around the galactic center (GC) and another that is emitted from the GC. From the location of the maximum yearly variation, one can compute the ratio of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Yukio Tomozawa

We explore the feasibility and astrophysical consequences of a new long-range U(1) gauge field ("dark electromagnetism") that couples only to dark matter, not to the Standard Model. The dark matter consists of an equal number of positive…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-13 Lotty Ackerman , Matthew R. Buckley , Sean M. Carroll , Marc Kamionkowski

Recent observations of lepton cosmic rays, coming from the PAMELA and FERMI experiments, have pushed our understanding of the interstellar medium and cosmic rays sources to unprecedented levels. The imprint of dark matter on lepton cosmic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2011-01-27 Roberto A. Lineros

An extra Abelian gauge symmetry is motivated in many new physics models in both supersymmetric and nonsupersymmetric cases. Such a new gauge symmetry may interact with both the observable sector and the hidden sector. We systematically…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-02-09 Taeil Hur , Hye-Sung Lee , Christoph Luhn

We study a simplified model of lepton-flavoured complex scalar dark matter set up in the Dark Minimal Flavour Violation framework. In this model the Standard Model is extended by a scalar dark matter flavour triplet and a charged fermionic…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-05-18 Harun Acaroğlu , Prateek Agrawal , Monika Blanke

Multistate dark matter (DM) models with small mass splittings and couplings to light hidden sector bosons have been proposed as an explanation for the PAMELA/Fermi/H.E.S.S. high-energy lepton excesses. We investigate this proposal over a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-03-17 Marco Cirelli , James M. Cline