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We analyze the first two years of data from the Fermi Gamma Ray Space Telescope from the direction of the inner 10 degrees around the Galactic Center with the intention of constraining, or finding evidence of, annihilating dark matter. We…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-03-17 Dan Hooper , Lisa Goodenough

We test the plausibility that a Majorana fermion dark matter candidate with a scalar mediator explains the gamma ray excess from the Galactic center. Assuming that the mediator couples to all third generation fermions we calculate…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-12-23 Csaba Balázs , Tong Li , Chris Savage , Martin White

The multi-component decaying dark matter (DM) scenario is investigated to explain the possible excesses in the positron fraction by PAMELA and recently confirmed by AMS-02, and in the total $e^+ +e^-$ flux observed by Fermi-LAT. By…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-04-02 Chao-Qiang Geng , Da Huang , Lu-Hsing Tsai

We attempt to interpret the cosmic-ray positron excess by injection from the nearby pulsar Geminga, assuming a two-zone diffusion scenario and an injection spectrum with a low energy cutoff. Since the high energy positrons and electrons…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-09-27 Guang-Yao Zhou , Zhao-Huan Yu , Qiang Yuan , Hong-Hao Zhang

New bounds on decaying Dark Matter are derived from the gamma-ray measurements of (i) the isotropic residual (extragalactic) background by Fermi and (ii) the Fornax galaxy cluster by H.E.S.S. We find that those from (i) are among the most…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-07-31 E. Moulin , M. Cirelli , P. Panci , P. Serpico , A. Viana

Recently PAMELA released their first results on the positron and antiproton ratios. Stimulated by the new data, we studied the cosmic ray propagation models and calculated the secondary positron and antiproton spectra. The low energy…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-02-26 Peng-fei Yin , Qiang Yuan , Jia Liu , Juan Zhang , Xiao-jun Bi , Shou-hua Zhu , Xinmin Zhang

It is well known that the dark matter dominates the dynamics of galaxies and clusters of galaxies. Its constituents remain a mystery despite an assiduous search for them over the past three decades. Recent results from the satellite-based…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2011-06-07 Debtosh Chowdhury , Chanda J. Jog , Sudhir K Vempati

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 examine the constraints on final state radiation from Weakly Interacting Massive Particle (WIMP) dark matter candidates annihilating into various standard model final states, as imposed by the measurement of the isotropic diffuse…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-07-16 Kevork N. Abazajian , Prateek Agrawal , Zackaria Chacko , Can Kilic

The Fermi-LAT observation of a gamma-ray excess from the galactic-centre, as well as the PAMELA, AMS, and AMS-2 anti-particle excesses, and the recent claim of a Fermi-LAT excess in the Reticulum-2 dwarf galaxy have been put forward as…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-11-16 G. Beck , S. Colafrancesco

The isotropic gamma-ray background arises from the contribution of unresolved sources, including members of confirmed source classes and proposed gamma-ray emitters such as the radiation induced by dark matter annihilation and decay. Clues…

Gamma-ray lines from dark matter annihilation ($\chi\chi\to \gamma X$, where $X=\gamma,h,Z$) are always accompanied, at lower energies, by a continuum gamma-ray spectrum stemming both from radiative corrections ($X=\gamma$) and from the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-08-03 Stefano Profumo , Farinaldo S. Queiroz , Carlos E. Yaguna

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

Using gamma-ray data from observations of the Milky Way, Andromeda (M31), and the cosmic background, we calculate conservative upper limits on the dark matter self-annihilation cross section to a number of final states, over a wide range of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-11-20 T. D. Jacques

Recent advances in gamma-ray cosmic ray, infrared and radio astronomy have allowed us to develop a significantly better understanding of the galactic medium properties in the last few years. In this work using the DRAGON code, that…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-03-05 Maryam Tavakoli , Ilias Cholis , Carmelo Evoli , Piero Ullio

Recent results from the PAMELA satellite indicate the presence of a large flux of positrons (relative to electrons) in the cosmic ray spectrum between approximately 10 and 100 GeV. As annihilating dark matter particles in many models are…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-04-15 Dan Hooper , Pasquale Blasi , Pasquale Dario Serpico

The rise in the energy spectrum of the positron ratio, observed by the PAMELA satellite above 10 GeV, and other cosmic ray measurements, have been interpreted as a possible signature of Dark Matter annihilation in the Galaxy. However, the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-11-18 Miguel Pato , Lidia Pieri , Gianfranco Bertone

Dark-matter annihilation into electroweak gauge and Higgs bosons results in $\gamma$-ray emission. We use observational upper limits on the fluxes of both line and continuum $\gamma$-rays from the Milky Way Galactic Center and from Milky…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-01-06 Michael A. Fedderke , Edward W. Kolb , Tongyan Lin , Lian-Tao Wang

We search for spectral features in Fermi-LAT gamma-rays coming from regions corresponding to eighteen brightest nearby galaxy clusters determined by the magnitude of their signal line-of-site integrals. We observe a double peak-like excess…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-05 Andi Hektor , Martti Raidal , Elmo Tempel

If the positron fraction and combined electron-positron flux excesses recently observed by PAMELA, Fermi and HESS have a dark matter origin, final state radiation (FSR) photons from dark matter annihilation into lepton-rich final states may…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2010-12-21 Bibhushan Shakya , Maxim Perelstein