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We discuss challenges to a dark matter annihilation interpretation of the excess positron fraction in the cosmic rays observed by the PAMELA, Fermi-LAT and AMS-02 collaborations. The spectra of positrons from annihilations into the leptonic…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-12-31 Vassilis C. Spanos

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

The recently reported positron fraction up to $\sim 350$ GeV by AMS-02 seems to have tension with the total electron/positron spectra detected by Fermi and HESS, for either pulsar or dark matter annihilation/decay scenario as the primary…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-05-15 Qiang Yuan , Xiao-Jun Bi

DAMA annual modulation data and, CoGeNT, CDMS-II, EDELWEISS-II, CRESST excesses of events over the expected background are reanalyzed in terms of a dark matter particle signal considering the case of a rotating halo. It is found that DAMA…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-09-16 Francesco Nozzoli

We discuss the possibility of solving the inverse problem of the cosmic-ray electron/positron from decaying/annihilating dark matter, and show simple analytic formulae to reconstruct the source spectrum of the electron/positron from the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-02 Koichi Hamaguchi , Kouhei Nakaji , Eita Nakamura

Our understanding of the Universe today includes overwhelming observational evidence for the existence of an elusive form of matter that is generally referred to as dark. Although many theories have been developed to describe its nature,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-20 Aldo Morselli

Assuming that the positron excess in PAMELA satellite data is a consequence of annihilations of cold dark matter, we consider from a model-independent perspective if the data show a preference for the spin of dark matter. We then perform a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-04-06 V. Barger , W. -Y. Keung , D. Marfatia , G. Shaughnessy

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

Recently, a claim of possible evidence for Dark Matter in data from the Fermi LAT experiment was made by Goodenough and Hooper [8]. We test the Dark Matter properties consistent with their claim in terms of the MSSM by a 24-dimensional…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-11 A. R. Raklev , M. J. White

We take the MSSM as a complete theory of low energy phenomena, including neutrino masses and mixings. This immediately implies that the gravitino is the only possible dark matter candidate. We study the implications of the astrophysical…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-03-13 Borut Bajc , Tsedenbaljir Enkhbat , Dilip Kumar Ghosh , Goran Senjanovic , Yue Zhang

If dark matter (DM) annihilation accounts for the tantalizing excess of cosmic ray electron/positrons, as reported by the PAMELA, ATIC, HESS and FERMI observatories, then the implied annihilation cross section must be relatively large. This…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2012-03-15 A. A. El-Zant , S. Khalil , H. Okada

Searches for Dark Matter (DM) particles with indirect detection techniques have reached important milestones with the precise measurements of the anti-proton and gamma-ray spectra, notably by the PAMELA and FERMI-LAT experiments. While the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-11 Genevieve Belanger , Celine Boehm , Marco Cirelli , Jonathan Da Silva , Alexander Pukhov

The recent positron excess observed in the PAMELA satellite experiment strengthens previous experimental findings. We give here an analysis of this excess in the framework of the Stueckelberg extension of the standard model which includes…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-03-24 Daniel Feldman , Zuowei Liu , Pran Nath

It is shown that a Weakly Interacting Massive dark matter Particle (WIMP) interpretation for the positron excess observed in a variety of experiments, HEAT, PAMELA, and AMS-02, is highly constrained by the Fermi/LAT observations of dwarf…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-04-06 Alejandro Lopez , Christopher Savage , Douglas Spolyar , Douglas Q. Adams

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

Employing Fermi-LAT gamma ray observations, several independent groups have found excess extended gamma ray emission at the Galactic center (GC). Both, annihilating dark matter (DM) or a population of $\sim 10^3$ unresolved millisecond…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-12-12 Chris Gordon , Oscar Macias

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

Recently, a preliminary spectrum from the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope has been presented for the inner galaxy (-30 < l < 30, -5 < b < 5), as well as the galactic center (-1 < l < 1, -1< b < 1). We consider the implications of these data…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2009-07-29 Ilias Cholis , Gregory Dobler , Douglas P. Finkbeiner , Lisa Goodenough , Tracy R. Slatyer , Neal Weiner

The flux of electron and positron cosmic rays measured by the space-based experiments PAMELA, AMS-02, CALET, DAMPE and Fermi-LAT shows an unexpected behaviour at high energies, in comparison with expectations from standard astrophysical…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-11-19 Johannes Buchner , Edson Carquin , Marco A. Díaz , Germán A. Gómez-Vargas , Boris Panes , Nicolás Viaux

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