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Decaying dark matter particles could be indirectly detected as an excess over a simple power law in the energy spectrum of the diffuse extragalactic gamma-ray background. Furthermore, since the Earth is not located at the center of the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-11-20 Alejandro Ibarra , David Tran , Christoph Weniger

Interstellar antiproton fluxes can arise from dark matter annihilating or decaying into quarks or gluons that subsequently fragment into antiprotons. Evaporation of primordial black holes also can produce a significant antiproton cosmic-ray…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-31 James D. Wells , Alexander Moiseev , Jonathan F. Ormes

The observations of the total electronic component and the positron fraction in cosmic rays by the FERMI, HESS, ATIC, and PAMELA instruments are studied with analytical propagation models, both for a set of discrete sources and for a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-15 R. Cowsik , B. Burch

The rise of the cosmic ray positron fraction with energy, as first observed with high confidence by PAMELA, implies that a large flux of high energy positrons has been recently (or is being currently) injected into the local volume of the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-08-13 Ilias Cholis , Dan Hooper

A number of signals involving charged cosmic rays and high-energy photons have been interpreted as being due to annihilating dark matter. This article provides an overview of the experimental evidence and discusses in particular detections…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 U. Schwanke

Recently, the PAMELA, FERMI, HESS, and ATIC instruments have discovered interesting spectral features in the positron to total electron ratio and in the total electronic component of cosmic rays at high energy. These observations are…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2009-08-26 R. Cowsik , B. Burch

Recent observations of lepton cosmic rays, coming from the PAMELA and FERMI experiments, have pushed our understanding of the interstellar medium and cosmic rays sources to unprecedented levels. The imprint of dark matter on lepton cosmic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2011-01-27 Roberto A. Lineros

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

We calculate the extragalactic diffuse emission originating from the up-scattering of cosmic microwave photons by energetic electrons and positrons produced in particle dark matter annihilation events at all redshifts and in all halos. We…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2009-07-22 Stefano Profumo , Tesla E. Jeltema

In this work we continue our investigations of the possibility of explanation of the positron anomaly (PA) in cosmic rays with the help of annihilating or decaying dark matter (DM) component by varying its space distribution. In the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-12-19 K. M. Belotsky , F. V. Kostromin , M. L. Solovyov

The electron and positron cosmic rays observations have impulsed a hot debate regarding the origin of such particles. Their propagation in the galactic medium is modeled according to a successfully tested two--zone propagation model. The…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2011-02-03 Roberto Lineros

Recent precision measurements of the flux of cosmic ray positrons by the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer show that the spectrum has a marked softening feature for energies close to one TeV. A possible interpretation of this result is that the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-02-19 Paolo Lipari

Dark matter is a popular candidate to a new source of primary-charged particles, especially positrons in cosmic rays, which are proposed to account for observable anomalies. While this hypothesis of decaying or annihilating DM is mostly…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-11-13 Konstantin Belotsky , Maxim Solovyov

It has been long discussed that cosmic rays may contain signals of dark matter. In the last couple of years an anomaly of cosmic-ray positrons has drawn a lot of attentions, and recently an excess in cosmic-ray anti-proton has been reported…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-06-29 Shin'ichiro Ando , Koji Ishiwata

Cosmic-ray anti-nuclei provide a promising discovery channel for the indirect detection of particle dark matter. Hadron showers produced by the pair-annihilation or decay of Galactic dark matter generate anti-nucleons which can in turn form…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-18 Eric Carlson , Adam Coogan , Tim Linden , Stefano Profumo , Alejandro Ibarra , Sebastian Wild

We lay the foundations for a new fast method to reconstruct the electron density in x-ray scanning applications using measurements in the dark field. This approach is applied to a type of machine configuration with fixed energy sensitive…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-05-08 James Webber

We study the annihilating dark matter contribution to the extra-galactic diffuse gamma-ray background spectrum, motivated by the recent observations of cosmic-ray positron/electron anomalies. The observed diffuse gamma-ray flux provides…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2009-09-02 Masahiro Kawasaki , Kazunori Kohri , Kazunori Nakayama

High-energy cosmic-ray electrons reveal some remarkable spectral features, the most noteworthy of which is the rise in the positron fraction above 10~GeV. Due to strong energy loss during propagation, these particles can reach Earth only…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-12-21 Reda Attallah

Multiple space-borne cosmic ray detectors have detected line-like features in the electron and positron spectra. Most recently, the DAMPE collaboration reported the existence of such a feature at 1.4 TeV, sparking interest in a potential…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-10-30 Adam Coogan , Benjamin V. Lehmann , Stefano Profumo

Recent measurements of cosmic-ray electron and positron fluxes by PAMELA and ATIC experiments may indicate the existence of annihilating dark matter with large annihilation cross section. We show that the dark matter annihilation in the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-04-21 Junji Hisano , Masahiro Kawasaki , Kazunori Kohri , Takeo Moroi , Kazunori Nakayama