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Recently published results from the PAMELA experiment have shown conclusive evidence for an excess of positrons at high (~ 10 - 100 GeV) energies, confirming earlier indications from HEAT and AMS-01. Such a signal is generally expected from…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-12-15 Ilias Cholis , Douglas P. Finkbeiner , Lisa Goodenough , Neal Weiner

Recently the PAMELA experiment has released its updated anti-proton flux and anti-proton to proton flux ratio data up to energies of ~200GeV. With no clear excess of cosmic ray anti-protons at high energies, one can extend constraints on…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2011-09-28 Ilias Cholis

In the past decade, gamma-ray observations and radio observations put strong constraints on the parameters of dark matter annihilation. In this article, we suggest another robust way to constrain the parameters of dark matter annihilation.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-08-09 Man Ho Chan

We examine the expected signal from annihilation events in realistic cold dark matter halos. If the WIMP is a neutralino, with an annihilation cross-section predicted in minimal SUSY models for the lightest stable relic particle, the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 James E. Taylor , Joseph Silk

We consider the signals of positrons and electrons from "exciting" dark matter (XDM) annihilation. Because of the light (m_phi ~< 1 GeV) force carrier phi into which the dark matter states can annihilate, the electrons and positrons are…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-07-06 Ilias Cholis , Lisa Goodenough , Neal Weiner

In the frame of indirect dark matter searches we investigate the flux of high-energy $\gamma$-ray photons produced by annihilation of dark matter in caustics within our Galaxy under the hypothesis that the bulk of dark matter is composed of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Lidia Pieri , Enzo Branchini

We consider the lightest supersymmetric particle (LSP), neutralino in minimal anomaly mediated supersymmetry breaking model (mAMSB) to be a possible candidate for weakly interacting massive particles (WIMP) or cold dark matter and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-06-28 Kamakshya Prasad Modak , Debasish Majumdar

The electron and positron cosmic rays puzzle has triggered a revolution in the field of astroparticle physics. Many hypotheses have been proposed to explain the unexpected rise of the positron fraction, observed by HEAT and PAMELA…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2011-01-20 Roberto Alfredo Lineros

We use high resolution numerical simulations of the formation of cold dark matter halos to simulate the background of decay products from neutralino annihilation, such as gamma-rays or neutrinos. Halos are non-spherical, have steep singular…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Carlos Calcaneo-Roldan , Ben Moore

The precise measurements of energy spectra of cosmic ray positrons and/or electrons by recent experiments show clear excesses above 10 GeV. Moreover, a potential sharp spectral feature was suggested by the Dark Matter Particle Explorer…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-04-29 Lei Feng , Zhaofeng Kang , Qiang Yuan , Peng-Fei Yin , Yi-Zhong Fan

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 paradigm of the neutralino dark matter predicts that the first gravitationally bound objects are earth-mass sized microhaloes, which would emit annihilation gamma-rays. Here we show that, though the flux from individual nearest…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Takeshi Oda , Tomonori Totani , Masahiro Nagashima

The annihilations of neutralino dark matter (or other dark matter candidate) generate, among other Standard Model states, electrons and positrons. These particles emit synchrotron photons as a result of their interaction with the Galactic…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 Dan Hooper

Indirect detection signals from dark matter annihilation are studied in the positron channel. We discuss in detail the positron propagation inside the galactic medium: we present novel solutions of the diffusion and propagation equations…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-09-14 N. Fornengo , T. Delahaye , R. Lineros , F. Donato , P. Salati

We present here a quantitative analysis of the recent AMS-02 data with the purpose of investigating the interplay between astrophysical sources and Dark Matter in their interpretation. First, we show that AMS-02 leptonic measurements are in…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-08-03 Mattia Di Mauro , Andrea Vittino

A possible hint of dark matter annihilation has been found in Cuoco, Korsmeier and Kr\"amer (2017) from an analysis of recent cosmic-ray antiproton data from AMS-02 and taking into account cosmic-ray propagation uncertainties by fitting at…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-11-07 Alessandro Cuoco , Jan Heisig , Michael Korsmeier , Michael Krämer

In this paper we develop a Markov Chain Monte Carlo code to study the dark matter properties in interpreting the recent observations of cosmic ray electron/positron excesses. We assume that the dark matter particles couple dominantly to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-01-20 Jie Liu , Qiang Yuan , Xiaojun Bi , Hong Li , Xinmin Zhang

A self-consistent global fitting method based on the Markov Chain Monte Carlo technique to study the dark matter (DM) property associated with the cosmic ray electron/positron excesses was developed in our previous work. In this work we…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-03-15 Jie Liu , Qiang Yuan , Xiaojun Bi , Hong Li , Xinmin Zhang

The annihilation of neutralino dark matter may result in observable signals in different wavelength. In the present paper we will discuss the effect of neutralino annihilation in the halo of our Galaxy and in its center. According to high…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-11-09 Roberto Aloisio

We use recently released data on the positron-to-electron ratio in cosmic rays from the AMS-02 experiment to constrain dark matter annihilation in the Milky Way. Due to the yet unexplained positron excess, limits are generally weaker than…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-10-31 Joachim Kopp