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We investigate the evolution of the abundance of the asymmetric thermal Dark Matter when its annihilation rate at chemical decoupling is boosted by the Sommerfeld enhancement. We perform the detailed analysis of the effect of $s$-- and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-09-02 Hoernisa Iminniyaz

The excess above 1 GeV in the energy spectrum of the diffuse Galactic gamma radiation, measured with the EGRET experiment, can be interpreted as the annihilation of Dark Matter (DM) particles. The DM is distributed in a halo around the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-10-29 Markus Weber

Multistate dark matter (DM) models with small mass splittings and couplings to light hidden sector bosons have been proposed as an explanation for the PAMELA/Fermi/H.E.S.S. high-energy lepton excesses. We investigate this proposal over a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-03-17 Marco Cirelli , James M. Cline

Recently reported tentative evidence for a gamma-ray line in the Fermi-LAT data is of great potential interest for identifying the nature of dark matter. We compare the implications for decaying and annihilating dark matter taking the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-05 Wilfried Buchmuller , Mathias Garny

Long-range attractive interactions between dark matter particles can significantly enhance their annihilation, particularly at low velocities. This ``Sommerfeld enhancement'' is typically computed by evaluating the deformation of the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-11-11 Aditya Parikh , Ryosuke Sato , Tracy R. Slatyer

The annihilation of dark matter (DM) particles in the Milky Way can contribute to the diffuse gamma-ray background (DGRB). Due to the presence of substructures, this emission will appear anisotropic in a predictable way. We generate…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-23 J. U. Lange , M. -C. Chu

We present a calculation of the continuum part of the gamma-ray spectra resulting from Dark Matter annihilation in the framework of the MSSM taking into account Sommerfeld effects. Concentrating on pure wino and pure higgsino scenarios we…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-10-18 Barbara Jäger , Martin Vollmann

Monochromatic photons could be produced in the annihilation or decay of dark matter particles. At high energies, the search for such line features in the cosmic gamma-ray spectrum is essentially background free because plausible…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-05-27 Gilles Vertongen , Christoph Weniger

Gamma-ray observations have long been used to constrain the properties of dark matter (DM), with a strong focus on weakly interacting massive particles annihilating through velocity-independent processes. However, in the absence of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-10-11 Thomas Lacroix , Gaétan Facchinetti , Judit Pérez-Romero , Martin Stref , Julien Lavalle , David Maurin , Miguel A. Sánchez-Conde

Dark matter self-scattering is one of key ingredients for small-scale structure of the Universe, while dark matter annihilation is important for the indirect measurements. There is a strong correlation between the velocity-dependent…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-03-22 Ayuki Kamada , Takumi Kuwahara , Ami Patel

We present a hidden Abelian extension of the Standard Model including a complex scalar as a dark matter candidate and a light scalar acting as a long range force carrier between dark matter particles. The Sommerfeld enhanced annihilation…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-11-20 Chiara Arina , Francois-Xavier Josse-Michaux , Narendra Sahu

We examine velocity-dependent dark matter annihilation in subhalos using a sample of six Milky Way-like galaxies from the Aurgia simulation suite. We quantify the enhancement in the annihilation rate in subhalos when including the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-09-16 Odelia V. Hartl , Evan Vienneau , Evan Batteas , Addy J. Evans , Nassim Bozorgnia , Louis E. Strigari

We consider gamma-ray signals of dark matter annihilation in extragalactic halos in the case where dark matter annihilates from a $p$-wave or $d$-wave state. In these scenarios, signals from extragalactic halos are enhanced relative to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-09-19 Eric J. Baxter , Jason Kumar , Aleczander D. Paul , Jack Runburg

We study high-resolution hydrodynamic simulations of Milky Way type galaxies obtained within the "Evolution and Assembly of GaLaxies and their Environments" (EAGLE) project, and identify the those that best satisfy observational constraints…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-01-05 F. Calore , N. Bozorgnia , M. Lovell , G. Bertone , M. Schaller , C. S. Frenk , R. A. Crain , J. Schaye , T. Theuns , J. W. Trayford

We propose a new signature for weakly interacting massive particle (WIMP) dark matter, a spectral feature in the diffuse extragalactic gamma-ray radiation. This feature, a sudden drop of the gamma-ray intensity at an energy corresponding to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-04-06 Lars Bergstrom , Joakim Edsjo , Piero Ullio

Dwarf spheroidal galaxies have a large mass to light ratio and low astrophysical background, and are therefore considered one of the most promising targets for dark matter searches in the gamma-ray band. By applying a joint likelihood…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-15 M. Llena Garde , J. Conrad , J. Cohen-Tanugi , M. Kaplinghat , G. Martinez

In this work, we study an extension of the Standard Model which includes a new massive vector field in the fundamental representation of SU(2)_L. The neutral component of the new vector field is a natural dark matter candidate. We compute…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-12-11 Sebastian Acevedo , Alfonso R. Zerwekh

Measuring the density profile of dark matter in the Solar neighborhood has important implications for both dark matter theory and experiment. In this work, we apply autoregressive flows to stars from a realistic simulation of a Milky…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-03-29 Matthew R Buckley , Sung Hak Lim , Eric Putney , David Shih

We propose a new scenario that both the dark matter freeze-out in the early Universe and its possible annihilation for indirect detection around a supermassive black hole are enhanced by a Breit-Wigner resonance. With the mediator mass…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-02-04 Yu Cheng , Shao-Feng Ge , Jie Sheng , Tsutomu T. Yanagida

The annihilation of dark matter (DM) in the Galaxy could produce specific imprints on the spectra of antimatter species in Galactic cosmic rays, which could be detected by upcoming experiments such as PAMELA and AMS02. Recent studies show…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 P. Brun , G. Bertone , J. Lavalle , P. Salati , R. Taillet