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Motivated by the gamma-ray excess observed from the region surrounding the Galactic Center, we explore particle dark matter models that could potentially account for the spectrum and normalization of this signal. Taking a model-independent…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-04 Asher Berlin , Dan Hooper , Samuel D. McDermott

There is convincing observational evidence for an increasing cosmic-ray positron-to-electron ratio at energies larger than $\sim 10$~GeV, at odds with expectations from secondary positron production. The most recent AMS-02 data exhibit an…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-03-21 Stefano Profumo , Farinaldo Queiroz , Clarissa Siqueira

An excess of $\sim$10-20 GeV cosmic-ray antiprotons has been identified in the spectrum reported by the AMS-02 Collaboration. The systematic uncertainties associated with this signal, however, have made it difficult to interpret these…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-20 Ilias Cholis , Tim Linden , Dan Hooper

Recently, new data on antiprotons and positrons from PAMELA, e- + e+ spectra from ATIC, FERMI and HESS up to TeV energies all indicate deviations from expectations, which has caused an interesting mix of new explanations, ranging from…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-20 Wim de Boer

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

Fermi-LAT has confirmed the excess in cosmic positron fraction observed by PAMELA, which could be explained by dark matter annihilating or decaying in the center of the galaxy. Most existing models postulate that the dark matter annihilates…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-05 Hsin-Chia Cheng , Wei-Chih Huang , Ian Low , Gabe Shaughnessy

Recently the DArk Matter Particle Explorer (DAMPE) has reported an excess in the electron-positron flux of the cosmic rays which is interpreted as a dark matter particle with the mass about $1.5$ TeV. We come up with a leptophilic $Z'$…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-06-13 Karim Ghorbani , Parsa Hossein Ghorbani

The apparent excess of gamma rays in an extended region in the direction of the galactic center has a spatial distribution and amplitude that are suggestive of dark matter annihilations. If this excess is indeed due to dark matter…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-11-19 Adam Martin , Jessie Shelton , James Unwin

The long standing anomaly in the positron flux as measured by the PAMELA and AMS-02 experiments could potentially be explained by dark matter (DM) annihilations. This scenario typically requires a large "boost factor" to be consistent with…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-12-12 Jatan Buch , Pranjal Ralegankar , Vikram Rentala

We consider DM that only couples to SM gauge bosons and fills one gauge multiplet, e.g. a fermion 5-plet (which is automatically stable), or a wino-like 3-plet. We revisit the computation of the cosmological relic abundance including…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 Marco Cirelli , Alessandro Strumia , Matteo Tamburini

We study a scenario that a hidden gaugino dark matter decays into the standard-model particles (and their supersymmetric partners) through a kinetic mixing with the gaugino of a U(1)B-L broken at a scale close to the grand unification…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-02-02 Satoshi Shirai , Fuminobu Takahashi , T. T. Yanagida

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

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

Previous attempts at explaining the gamma-ray excess near the Galactic Centre have focussed on dark matter annihilation directly into Standard Model particles. This results in a preferred dark matter mass of 30-40 GeV (if the annihilation…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-07-30 Celine Boehm , Matthew J. Dolan , Christopher McCabe

We show that the electron recoil excess around 2 keV claimed by the Xenon collaboration can be fitted by DM or DM-like particles having a fast component with velocity of order $\sim 0.1$. Those particles cannot be part of the cold DM halo…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-11-11 Kristjan Kannike , Martti Raidal , Hardi Veermäe , Alessandro Strumia , Daniele Teresi

We construct a Dark Matter (DM) annihilation module that can encompass the predictions from a wide array of models built to explain the recently reported PAMELA and ATIC/PPB-BETS excesses. We present a detailed analysis of the injection…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-01-15 Patrick Meade , Michele Papucci , Tomer Volansky

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 demonstrate that an economical two Higgs doublet model can explain the electron and positron excesses in the recent ATIC and PAMELA experiments by the three body decays of the dark matter (DM) fermions without requiring the fine turning…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-09-09 Chuan-Hung Chen , Chao-Qiang Geng , Dmitry V. Zhuridov

The anomalies observed in recent cosmic ray experiments seem to strongly constrain the nature of the dark matter. In this letter, we investigate a possibility of the fermionic dark matter with a minimal extension of the standard model. We…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-04-30 Koichi Hamaguchi , Satoshi Shirai , T. T. Yanagida

The possibility that the Galactic dark matter is composed of neutralinos that are just above half the $Z^o$ mass is examined, in the context of the Galactic positron excess. In particular, we check if the anomalous bump in the cosmic ray…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Irit Maor