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Weakly Interacting Massive Particles (WIMPs) are a theoretical class of particles that are excellent dark matter candidates. WIMP annihilation or decay may produce essentially monochromatic gamma rays detectable by the Fermi Large Area…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-02-22 LAT Collaboration

The current version of the Fermi Large Area Telescope data (P8R2) has been publicly available since June 2015, with the caveat that the residual background of all event classes, except ULTRACLEANVETO, was not fully isotropic: it was…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-11-27 P. Bruel , T. H. Burnett , S. W. Digel , G. Johannesson , N. Omodei , M. Wood

We demonstrate that an economical two Higgs doublet model can explain the electron and positron excesses in the recent ATIC and PAMELA experiments by the three body decays of the dark matter (DM) fermions without requiring the fine turning…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-09-09 Chuan-Hung Chen , Chao-Qiang Geng , Dmitry V. Zhuridov

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 Fermi bubbles are two large structures in the gamma-ray sky extending to $55^\circ$ above and below the Galactic center. We analyze 50 months of Fermi Large Area Telescope data between 100 MeV and 500 GeV above $10^\circ$ in Galactic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-09-22 LAT Collaboration

In this letter, we study the possibility that Kaluza-Klein dark matter in a model with one universal extra dimension is responsible for the recent observations of the PAMELA and ATIC experiments. In this model, the dark matter particles…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-04-21 Dan Hooper , Kathryn Zurek

In this symposium the Fermi-LAT collaboration released the results of its measurement of the $e^-$ and $e^+$ separate spectra, obtained using the Earth magnetic field. Those results confirm PAMELA finding of an increasing positron fraction…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-14 Dario Grasso , Daniele Gaggero

In more than four years of observation the Large Area Telescope on board the Fermi satellite has identified pulsed $\gamma$-ray emission from more than 80 young pulsars, providing light curves with high statistics. Fitting the observations…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-02-11 M. Pierbattista , A. K. Harding , I. A. Grenier , T. J. Johnson , P. A. Caraveo , M. Kerr , P. L. Gonthier

Recent data from cosmic ray experiments such as PAMELA, Fermi, ATIC and PPB-BETS all suggest the need for a new primary source of electrons and positrons at high (>~100 GeV) energies. Many proposals have been put forth to explain these…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2009-11-30 Ilias Cholis , Neal Weiner

The PAMELA collaboration recently released the $e^+$ absolute spectrum between 1 and 300 GeV in addition to the positron fraction and the $e^-$ spectrum previously measured in the same period. We use the newly developed three-dimensional…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-04-30 Daniele Gaggero , Dario Grasso , Luca Maccione , Giuseppe Di Bernardo , Carmelo Evoli

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

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 estimate the spatial locations of sources of the the observed features in the Fermi-LAT photon spectrum at $E_\gamma=110$ and $E_\gamma=130$ GeV. We determine whether they are consistent with emission from a single source, as would be…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-11 Kanishka Rao , Daniel Whiteson

Numerous extended sources around Galactic pulsars have shown significant $\gamma$-ray emission from GeV to TeV energies, revealing hundreds of TeV energy electrons scattering off of the underlying photon fields through inverse Compton…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-12-07 Mattia Di Mauro , Silvia Manconi , Michela Negro , Fiorenza Donato

A series of experiments measuring high-energy cosmic rays have recently reported strong indications for the existence of an excess of high-energy electrons and positrons. If interpreted in terms of the decay of dark matter particles, the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-01-15 Alejandro Ibarra , David Tran , Christoph Weniger

Recent results from the PAMELA, ATIC, PPB BETS and Fermi collaborations extend the energy range in the electron flux measurement up to unexplored energies in the hundred GeVs range confirming the bump starting at about 10GeV already…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-11-18 Ignacio Cernuda

The Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) has provided the measurement of the high energy cosmic ray electrons plus positrons (CRE) spectrum with unprecedented accuracy form 20 GeV to 1 TeV. Recently this range has been extended down to ~ 7 GeV.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-14 Giuseppe Di Bernardo , Daniele Gaggero , Dario Grasso

Axionlike-particles (ALPs) are one promising type of dark matter candidate particle that may generate detectable effects on $\gamma$-ray spectra other than the canonical weakly interacting massive particles. In this work we search for such…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-03-14 Zi-Qing Xia , Cun Zhang , Yun-Feng Liang , Lei Feng , Qiang Yuan , Yi-Zhong Fan , Jian Wu

We study the instrumental features of photons from the peak observed at $E_\gamma=130$ GeV in the spectrum of Fermi-LAT data. We use the {\sc sPlots} algorithm to reconstruct -- seperately for the photons in the peak and for background…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2012-11-07 Daniel Whiteson

Motivated by the recent results from the PAMELA and ATIC, we study the cosmic-ray electron and positron produced by the decay of gravitino dark matter. We calculate the cosmic-ray electron and positron fluxes and discuss implications to the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-11-15 Koji Ishiwata , Shigeki Matsumoto , Takeo Moroi