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Several explanations for the existence of Ultra High Energy Cosmic Rays invoke the idea that they originate from the decay of massive particles created in the reheating following inflation. It has been suggested that the decay products can…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Gustavo Medina Tanco , Alan A. Watson

The Dark Matter Particle Explorer (DAMPE) satellite detector announced its first result for measuring the cosmic-ray electron/positron (CRE) energy spectrum up to 4.6TeV, including a tentative peak-like event excess at (1.3-1.5)TeV. In this…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-04-10 Shao-Feng Ge , Hong-Jian He , Yu-Chen Wang

We discuss several aspects of astroparticle physics pertaining to a new model with MeV cold dark matter particles, which annihilate to electron-positron pairs in a manner yielding the correct CDM density required today, and explaining the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-10-27 Chen Jacoby , Shmuel Nussinov

We consider indirect detection of meta-stable dark matter particles decaying into a stable neutral particle and a pair of standard model fermions. Due to the softer energy spectra from the three-body decay, such models could potentially…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-03-23 Hsin-Chia Cheng , Wei-Chih Huang , Xiaoyuan Huang , Ian Low , Yue-Lin Sming Tsai , Qiang Yuan

An excess in the electronic recoil data was observed in the XENON1T detector. One of plausible explanations for the excess is absorption of a vector bosonic particle with the mass of $2-3\,{\rm keV}$. For this, the kinetic mixing…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-12-02 Gongjun Choi , Motoo Suzuki , Tsutomu T. Yanagida

Very recently, the Xenon1T collaboration has reported an intriguing electron recoil excess, which may imply for light dark matter. In order to interpret this anomaly, we propose the atmospheric dark matter (ADM) from the inelastic collision…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-01-04 Liangliang Su , Wenyu Wang , Lei Wu , Jin Min Yang , Bin Zhu

The excesses of the cosmic positron fraction recently measured by PAMELA and the electron spectra by ATIC, PPB-BETS, Fermi and H.E.S.S. indicate the existence of primary electron and positron sources. The possible explanations include dark…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-09-02 Juan Zhang , Xiao-jun Bi , Jia Liu , Si-Ming Liu , Peng-fei Yin , Qiang Yuan , Shou-hua Zhu

Recently, we have witnessed two hints of physics beyond the standard model: A 3.3$\sigma$ local excess ($M_{A_0} = 52$ GeV) in the search for $H_0\to A_0 A_0\to b\bar{b}\mu^{+}\mu^{-}$ and a 4.2$\sigma$ deviation from the SM prediction in…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-09-14 Chih-Ting Lu , Raymundo Ramos , Yue-Lin Sming Tsai

Annihilating dark matter (DM) models based on a scalar hidden sector with Higgs portal-like couplings to the Standard Model are considered as a possible explanation for recently observed cosmic ray excesses. Two versions of the model are…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-05-13 Kazunori Kohri , John McDonald , Narendra Sahu

Several cosmic ray experiments have measured excesses in electrons and positrons, relative to standard backgrounds, for energies from ~ 10 GeV - 1 TeV. These excesses could be due to new astrophysical sources, but an explanation in which…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-11-20 Spencer Chang , Lisa Goodenough

Precision measurements of the positron flux in cosmic ray have revealed an unexplained bump in the spectrum around $E\simeq 300\,\mathrm{GeV}$, not clearly attributable to known astrophysical processes. We propose annihilation of dark…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-06-11 Anirban Das , Basudeb Dasgupta , Anupam Ray

What is the upper limit of the mass of the neutralino dark matter whose thermal relic is consistent with the observation? If the neutralino dark matter and colored sparticles are extremely degenerated in mass, with a mass difference less…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-01-07 Hajime Fukuda , Feng Luo , Satoshi Shirai

Several groups have identified an extended excess of gamma rays over the modeled foreground and background emissions towards the Galactic center (GC) based on observations with the Fermi Large Area Telescope. This excess emission is…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-04-28 Francesca Calore , Ilias Cholis , Christopher McCabe , Christoph Weniger

We show that the excess in electron recoil events seen by the XENON1T experiment can be explained by relatively low-mass Luminous Dark Matter candidate. The dark matter scatters inelastically in the detector (or the surrounding rock), to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-10-15 Nicole F. Bell , James B. Dent , Bhaskar Dutta , Sumit Ghosh , Jason Kumar , Jayden L. Newstead

The positron excess in cosmic rays has stimulated a lot of interests in the last decade. The dark matter origin of the extra positrons has attracted great attention. However, the $\gamma$-ray search set very stringent constraints on the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-11-07 Xing-Jian Lv , Xiao-Jun Bi , Kun Fang , Peng-Fei Yin , Meng-Jie Zhao

We point out that current and planned telescopes have the potential of probing annihilating Dark Matter (DM) with a mass of O(100) TeV and beyond. As a target for such searches, we propose models where DM annihilates into lighter mediators,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-02-20 Marco Cirelli , Yann Gouttenoire , Kalliopi Petraki , Filippo Sala

The EGRET excess of diffuse Galactic gamma rays shows all the features expected from dark matter annihilation (DMA): a spectral shape given by the fragmentation of mono-energetic quarks, which is the same in all sky directions and an…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-01-09 Iris Gebauer

AMS-02 provided the unprecedented statistics in the measurement of the positron fraction from cosmic rays. That may offer a unique opportunity to distinguish the positron spectrum coming from various dark matter (DM) annihilation channels,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-02-17 Yu-Heng Chen , Kingman Cheung , Po-Yan Tseng

The flux of high-energy cosmic-ray electrons plus positrons recently measured by the DArk Matter Particle Explorer (DAMPE) exhibits a tentative peak excess at an energy of around $1.4$ TeV. In this paper, we consider the minimal gauged…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-09-03 Nobuchika Okada , Osamu Seto

The Galactic Center Excess (GCE) is a compelling signature of dark matter annihilation, but its spectral morphology is difficult to reconcile with the traditional paradigm of a single particle species. In this work, we perform a systematic…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-03-19 Farinaldo S. Queiroz , Clarissa Siqueira , Carlos E. Yaguna