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Recently, the DAMA/LIBRA collaboration has repeated and reinforced their claim to have detected an annual modulation in their signal rate, and have interpreted this observation as evidence for dark-matter particles at the 8.2 sigma…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-02-26 Dan Hooper , Frank Petriello , Kathryn M. Zurek , Marc Kamionkowski

The DArk Matter Particle Explorer (DAMPE) mission revealed a break in the spectrum of cosmic-ray electons and positrons. This is associated with an excess above the expected backgrounds at energies around 1 TeV. Several authors have argued…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-02-21 Geoff Beck , Sergio Colafrancesco

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 PAMELA, Fermi and HESS experiments (PFH) have shown anomalous excesses in the cosmic positron and electron fluxes. A very exciting possibility is that those excesses are due to annihilating dark matter (DM). In this paper we calculate…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-11-02 Gert Huetsi , Andi Hektor , Martti Raidal

The problem of the dark matter in the universe is reviewed. A short history of the subject is given, and several of the most obvious particle candidates for dark matter are identified. Particular focus is given to weakly interacting,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2012-06-15 Lars Bergström

We analyse dark matter in most general form of effective field theory approach. To examine the interactions between weakly interacting massive particles(WIMPs) and Standard Model (SM) particles, we use the six-dimensional EFT mediated by…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-05-05 Ayşe Elçiboğa Kuday , Ferhat Özok , Erdinç Ulaş Saka

Energetic antiprotons in cosmic rays can serve as an important indirect signature of dark matter. Conventionally, the antiproton flux from dark matter decays or annihilations is calculated by solving the transport equation with a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2011-06-24 Maxim Perelstein , Bibhushan Shakya

We study a two component dark matter candidate inspired by the Minimal Walking Technicolor model. Dark matter consists of a dominant SIMP-like dark atom component made of bound states between primordial helium nuclei and a doubly charged…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-09-02 K. Belotsky , M. Khlopov , C. Kouvaris , M. Laletin

If dark matter consists of weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs), dark matter subhalos in the Milky Way could be detectable as gamma-ray point sources due to WIMP annihilation. In this work, we perform an updated study of the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-05-25 Djoeke Schoonenberg , Jennifer Gaskins , Gianfranco Bertone , Jürg Diemand

The proposal of a galactic population of intermediate mass black holes (IMBHs), forming dark matter (DM) ``mini-spikes'' around them, has received considerable attention in recent years. In fact, leading in some scenarios to large…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-04-15 Torsten Bringmann , Julien Lavalle , Pierre Salati

Dark matter is an important component of the Standard model of cosmology but its nature is still unknown. One of the most common explanations is that dark matter consists of Weakly Interacting Massive Particles (WIMPs), supposed to be cold…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2019-06-26 A. Guskov , R. El-Kholy

In existing dark matter models with global symmetries the relic abundance of dark matter is either equal to that of anti-dark matter (thermal WIMP), or vastly larger, with essentially no remaining anti-dark matter (asymmetric dark matter).…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-05-27 Michael L. Graesser , Ian M. Shoemaker , Luca Vecchi

We argue that WIMP dark matter can annihilate via long-lived "WIMPonium" bound states in reasonable particle physics models of dark matter (DM). WIMPonium bound states can occur at or near threshold leading to substantial enhancements in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-05-07 John March-Russell , Stephen M. West

Annihilation of light dark matter of $m_{\rm DM} \approx (10-40)$ GeV into the Standard Model fermions has been suggested as a possible origin of the gamma-ray excess at GeV energies in the Fermi-LAT data. In this paper, we examine possible…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-19 Kyoungchul Kong , Jong-Chul Park

We present a systematic halo-independent analysis of available Weakly Interacting Massive Particles (WIMP) direct detection data within the framework of Inelastic Dark Matter (IDM). We show that, when the smallest number of assumptions is…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-09-03 Stefano Scopel , KookHyun Yoon

We perform a systematic study of the electric and magnetic dipole moments of dark matter (DM) that are induced at the one-loop level when DM experiences four-fermion interactions with Standard Model (SM) charged fermions. Related to their…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-12-08 Thomas Hambye , Xun-Jie Xu

Astrophysical and cosmological observations do not require the dark matter particles to be absolutely stable. If they are indeed unstable, their decay into positrons might occur at a sufficiently large rate to allow the indirect detection…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-05-05 Alejandro Ibarra , David Tran

If the present dark matter in the Universe annihilates into Standard Model particles, it must contribute to the gamma ray fluxes detected on the Earth. The magnitude of such contribution depends on the particular dark matter candidate, but…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-09-26 Álvaro de la Cruz-Dombriz , Viviana Gammaldi

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

There is increasing evidence that conventional cold dark matter (CDM) models lead to conflicts between observations and numerical simulations of dark matter halos on sub-galactic scales. Spergel and Steinhardt showed that if the CDM is…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 W. B. Lin , D. H. Huang , X. Zhang , R. Brandenberger