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Motivated by the recent PAMELA and ATIC results, we calculate the electron and positron fluxes from the decay of lightest-superparticle (LSP) dark matter. We assume that the LSP is the dominant component of dark matter, and consider the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-04-15 Koji Ishiwata , Shigeki Matsumoto , Takeo Moroi

A number of groups have employed radio observations of the Galactic center to derive stringent constraints on the annihilation cross section of weakly interacting dark matter. In this paper, we show that electron energy losses in this…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-02-09 Ilias Cholis , Dan Hooper , Tim Linden

The overabundance of high-energy cosmic positrons, observed by PAMELA and AMS-02, can be considered as the consequence of dark matter decays or annihilations. We show that recent FERMI/LAT measurements of the isotropic diffuse gamma-ray…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-07-11 Maxim Laletin

Annihilating dark matter particles produce roughly as much power in electrons and positrons as in gamma ray photons. The charged particles lose essentially all of their energy to inverse Compton and synchrotron processes in the galactic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 E. A. Baltz , L. Wai

A combined interpretation of the CALET $e^+\, +\, e^-$ spectrum up to 3 TeV and the AMS-02 positron spectrum up to 500 GeV was performed and the results are discussed. To parametrize the background electron flux, we assume a smoothly broken…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-10-23 S. Bhattacharyya , H. Motz , Y. Asaoka , S. Torii

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

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

We study the origin of the positron excess observed in the local cosmic-ray spectrum at high energies, and relate it to the cosmic rays and gamma-ray emission across the entire Galaxy. In particular, we explore the hypothesis of a single,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-03-07 Manuel Rocamora , Yago Ascasibar , Miguel A. Sánchez-Conde , Maneenate Wechakama , Pedro de la Torre Luque

High energy electrons and positrons from annihilating dark matter can imprint unique angular anisotropies on the diffuse gamma-ray flux by inverse Compton scattering off the interstellar radiation field. We develop a numerical tool to…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2011-02-10 Le Zhang , Francesco Miniati , Guenter Sigl

The direct detection of annihilation products in cosmic rays offer an alternative way to search for dark matter particles candidates. Here we will see in particular that the study of the spectrum of antiproton and positrons offer good…

Astrophysics · Physics 2017-08-23 P. Picozza , A. Morselli

Cosmic-ray observations provide a powerful probe of dark matter annihilation in the Galaxy. In this paper we derive constraints on heavy dark matter from the recent precise AMS-02 antiproton data. We consider all possible annihilation…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-04-23 Alessandro Cuoco , Jan Heisig , Michael Korsmeier , Michael Krämer

One aim of cosmic ray measurements is the search for possible signatures of annihilating or decaying dark matter. The so-called positron excess has attracted a lot of attention in this context. On the other hand it has been proposed that…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-02-02 Rolf Kappl , Annika Reinert

The Fermi-LAT experiment recently reported high precision measurements of the spectrum of cosmic-ray electrons-plus-positrons (CRE) between 20 GeV and 1 TeV. The spectrum shows no prominent spectral features, and is significantly harder…

We have developed a model which aims to reproduce observational data of many kinds related to cosmic-ray origin and propagation: direct measurements of nuclei, antiprotons, electrons and positrons, gamma-rays, and synchrotron radiation. Our…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. W. Strong , I. V. Moskalenko

Dark matter search in space has been carried out for many years. Measurements of cosmic ray photons, charged antiparticles and neutrinos are useful tools for dark matter indirect search. The antiparticle energy spectra of cosmic rays have…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-05-16 Jie Feng , Hong-Hao Zhang

In supersymmetric unified theories the dark matter particle can decay, just like the proton, through grand unified interactions with a lifetime of order of 10^{26} sec. Its decay products can be detected by several experiments -- including…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-09-24 Asimina Arvanitaki , Savas Dimopoulos , Sergei Dubovsky , Peter W. Graham , Roni Harnik , Surjeet Rajendran

The anomalies observed in recent cosmic ray experiments seem to strongly constrain the nature of the dark matter. In this letter, we investigate a possibility of the fermionic dark matter with a minimal extension of the standard model. We…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-04-30 Koichi Hamaguchi , Satoshi Shirai , T. T. Yanagida

Positron and electron cosmic rays provide a complementary way to study the galactic environment. The actual cosmic rays experiments, for instance PAMELA and HEAT, have presented very exciting results in this field. The observed positron…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-02-04 Roberto A. Lineros

Cosmic rays at the Earth include a secondary component originating in collisions of primary particles with the diffuse interstellar gas. The secondary cosmic rays are relatively rare but carry important information on the Galactic…

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