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Dark matter annihilation into photons in our galaxy would constitute an exciting indirect signal of its existence, as underscored by tentative evidence for 130 GeV dark matter in Fermi/LAT data. Models that give a large annihilation cross…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-11-11 James M. Cline , Grace Dupuis , Zuowei Liu

Since the PAMELA results on the "anomalously" high positron fraction and the lack of antiproton excess in our Galaxy, there has been a tremendous number of studies advocating new types of dark matter, with larger couplings to electrons than…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-11-20 Celine Boehm , Timur Delahaye , Pierre Salati , Florian Staub , Ritesh K. Singh

Cosmic-ray positrons have long been considered a powerful probe of dark matter annihilation. In particular, myriad studies of the unexpected rise in the positron fraction have debated its dark matter or pulsar origins. In this paper, we…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-01-07 Isabelle John , Tim Linden

We investigate different neutrino signals from the decay of dark matter particles to determine the prospects for their detection, and more specifically if any spectral signature can be disentangled from the background in present and future…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-04-23 Laura Covi , Michael Grefe , Alejandro Ibarra , David Tran

In this letter, we suggest that a nearby clump of 600-1000 GeV neutralinos may be responsible for the excesses recently observed in the cosmic ray positron and electron spectra by the PAMELA and ATIC experiments. Although neutralino dark…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-07-30 Dan Hooper , Albert Stebbins , Kathryn M. Zurek

We provide a scenario in which a hidden U(1) gauge boson constitutes dark matter of the Universe and decays into the standard-model particles through a kinetic mixing with an $U(1)_{B-L}$ gauge boson. Interestingly, our model can naturally…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-07-02 Chuan-Ren Chen , Fuminobu Takahashi , T. T. Yanagida

Recently PAMELA released their first results on the positron and antiproton ratios. Stimulated by the new data, we studied the cosmic ray propagation models and calculated the secondary positron and antiproton spectra. The low energy…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-02-26 Peng-fei Yin , Qiang Yuan , Jia Liu , Juan Zhang , Xiao-jun Bi , Shou-hua Zhu , Xinmin Zhang

Recent PAMELA data show that positron fraction has an excess above several GeV while anti-proton one is not. Moreover ATIC data indicates that electron/positron flux have a bump from 300 GeV to 800 GeV. Both annihilating dark matter (DM)…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-03-26 Jia Liu , Peng-fei Yin , Shou-hua Zhu

The decay of dark matter particles which are coupled predominantly to charged leptons has been proposed as a possible origin of excess high-energy positrons and electrons observed by cosmic-ray telescopes PAMELA and Fermi LAT. Even though…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-03-17 Mathias Garny , Alejandro Ibarra , David Tran , Christoph Weniger

The data collected by ATIC, PPB-BETS, FERMI-LAT and HESS all indicate that there is an electron/positron excess in the cosmic ray energy spectrum above $\sim$ 100 GeV, although different instrumental teams do not agree on the detailed…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-01-18 Yi-Zhong Fan , Bing Zhang , Jin Chang

The data recently obtained by PAMELA and ATIC show the presence of the peak in the cosmic positron spectrum at energies above 100 GeV. In this paper it has been shown that the peak can arise due to processes of the interaction of cosmic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2011-02-01 A. B. Flanchik

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

Recently, it was suggested that the gamma rays observed by the Fermi Gamma Ray Space Telescope from the direction of the galactic center could surprisingly well be described by a dark matter annihilation scenario, both in terms of their…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-09 Torsten Bringmann

Both the robust INTEGRAL 511 keV gamma-ray line and the recent tentative hint of the 135 GeV gamma-ray line from Fermi-LAT have similar signal morphologies, and may be produced from the same dark matter annihilation. Motivated by this…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-12 Yang Bai , Meng Su , Yue Zhao

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

Measurements of the cosmic ray antiproton spectrum can be used to search for contributions from annihilating dark matter and to constrain the dark matter annihilation cross section. Depending on the assumptions made regarding cosmic ray…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-03-19 Dan Hooper , Tim Linden , Philipp Mertsch

Recent results from the PAMELA satellite indicate the presence of a large flux of positrons (relative to electrons) in the cosmic ray spectrum between approximately 10 and 100 GeV. As annihilating dark matter particles in many models are…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-04-15 Dan Hooper , Pasquale Blasi , Pasquale Dario Serpico

Some direct detection experiments have recently collected excess events that could be interpreted as a dark matter (DM) signal, pointing to particles in the $\sim$10 GeV mass range. We show that scenarios in which DM can self-annihilate…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-03 Julien Lavalle

The Large Area Telescope onboard the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope has collected the largest ever sample of high-energy cosmic-ray electron and positron events. Possible features in their energy spectrum could be a signature of the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-07-13 M. N. Mazziotta , F. Costanza , A. Cuoco , F. Gargano , F. Loparco , S. Zimmer