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Over the past few years, there has been a hint of the $\gamma$-ray excess observed by the Fermi-LAT satellite borne telescope from the regions surrounding the Galactic Centre at an energy range $\sim 1$-$3$ GeV. The nature of this excess…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-03-21 Anirban Biswas

PAMELA's observation that the cosmic ray positron fraction increases rapidly with energy implies the presence of primary sources of energetic electron-positron pairs. Of particular interest is the possibility that dark matter annihilations…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-11-20 Dan Hooper , Kathryn M. Zurek

A new type of dark matter (DM) theories are proposed in the light of the standard model (SM) singlet scalar $\phi$ which is responsible for the diphoton excess at the LHC Run 2. In the so-called $\phi$-portal DM models, after taking into…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-02-15 Huayong Han , Shaoming Wang , Sibo Zheng

The SPI spectrometer aboard of the INTEGRAL satellite has released a map of the e+e- annihilation emission line of unprecedented quality, showing that most of the photons arise from a region coinciding with the stellar bulge of the Milky…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Michel Casse , Pierre Fayet

We point out that a non-relativistic $\sim 2 $ GeV dark matter (DM) which interacts with visible matter through higher dimensional Rayleigh operators could explain the excess of "electron recoil" events recently observed by the Xenon1T…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-03-24 Gil Paz , Alexey A. Petrov , Michele Tammaro , Jure Zupan

Annihilations of weakly interacting dark matter particles provide an important signature for the possibility of indirect detection of dark matter in galaxy halos. These self-annihilations can be greatly enhanced in the vicinity of a massive…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 G. Bertone , G. Sigl , J. Silk

The positron excess observed by the PAMELA experiment may come from dark matter annihilation, if the annihilation cross section is large enough. We show that the dark matter annihilation scenarios to explain the positron excess may also be…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-11-18 Junji Hisano , Masahiro Kawasaki , Kazunori Kohri , Kazunori Nakayama

We propose a novel framework where MeV-scale Dirac Dark Matter annihilates into axion-like particles, providing a natural explanation for the 511 keV gamma-ray line observed in the Galactic Center. The relic abundance is determined by…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-03-19 Mohammad Aghaie , Pedro De la Torre Luque , Alessandro Dondarini , Daniele Gaggero , Giulio Marino , Paolo Panci

We entertain the exotic possibility that dark matter (DM) decays or annihilations taking place in our galaxy may produce a flux of relativistic very weakly-coupled bosons, axions or dark photons. We show that there exist several upper…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-11-11 Jatan Buch , Manuel A. Buen-Abad , JiJi Fan , John Shing Chau Leung

The first result of AMS-02 confirms the positron fraction excess observed by PAMELA, but the spectrum is somewhat softer than that of PAMELA. In the dark matter (DM) interpretation it brings a tension between AMS-02 and Fermi-LAT, which…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-15 Lei Feng , Zhaofeng Kang

The AMS-02 collaboration has recently presented measurements of excellent quality of the cosmic electron and positron fluxes as well as the positron fraction. We use the measurements of the positron flux to derive, for the first time,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-04-02 Alejandro Ibarra , Anna S. Lamperstorfer , Joseph Silk

Drexler dark matter is an alternate approach to dark matter that assumes that highly relativistic protons trapped in the halo of the galaxies could account for the missing mass. We look at various energetics involved in such a scenario such…

General Physics · Physics 2011-04-08 C. Sivaram , Kenath Arun , R. Nagaraja

In interacting multi-component dark matter (DM) models, if the DM components are nearly degenerate in mass and the interactions between them are strong enough, the relatively heavy DM components can be converted into lighter ones at late…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-03 Ze-Peng Liu , Yue-Liang Wu , Yu-Feng Zhou

The detection of High Energy Cosmic Rays (HECR) with energies around and beyond GZK expected cutoff has introduced the idea of existence of a decaying Ultra Heavy Dark Matter (UHDM). If this type of particles make a substantial part of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Houri Ziaeepour

The cosmic electron and positron excesses have been explained as possible dark matter (DM) annihilation products. In this work we investigate the possible effects of such a DM annihilation scenario during the evolution history of the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-20 Qiang Yuan , Bin Yue , Xiaojun Bi , Xuelei Chen , Xinmin Zhang

The electron-positron excess reported by the DAMPE collaboration recently may be explained by an electrophilic dark matter (DM). A standard model singlet fermion may play the role of such a DM when it is stablized by some symmetries, such…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-02-07 Pei-Hong Gu , Xiao-Gang He

A leading interpretation of the electron/positron excesses seen by PAMELA and ATIC is dark matter annihilation in the galactic halo. Depending on the annihilation channel, the electron/positron signal could be accompanied by a galactic…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-09-29 Jeremy Mardon , Yasunori Nomura , Daniel Stolarski , Jesse Thaler

The recent results of the EDGES collaboration indicate that during the era of reionization, the primordial gas was much colder than expected. The cooling of the gas could be explained by interactions between dark matter (DM) and particles…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-11-14 Niki Klop , Shin'ichiro Ando

A simple and well-motivated explanation for the origin of dark matter is that it consists of thermal relic particles that get their mass entirely through electroweak symmetry breaking. The simplest models implementing this possibility…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 Philip C. Schuster , Natalia Toro

Antimatter cosmic-rays are used to probe new phenomena in physics, including dark matter annihilation. We use the cosmic-ray positron fraction spectrum by the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer, to search for such an annihilation signal in the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-01-18 Iason Krommydas , Ilias Cholis