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Recent evidence for one or more gamma-ray lines at ~ 130 GeV in the Fermi-LAT data from the Galactic Center has been interpreted as a hint for dark matter annihilation to Z{\gamma} or H{\gamma} with an annihilation cross section, <\sigma v>…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-02-12 Ranjan Laha , Kenny Chun Yu Ng , Basudeb Dasgupta , Shunsaku Horiuchi

We construct explicit models of particle dark matter where the attractive force in the dark matter sector creates a narrow near-threshold resonance that qualitatively changes the energy dependence of the annihilation cross section. In these…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-05 Haipeng An , Maxim Pospelov

During its first year of data taking, the Large Area Telescope (LAT) onboard the Fermi Gamma-Ray Space Telescope has collected a large sample of high-energy cosmic-ray electrons and positrons (CREs). We present the results of a directional…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-28 The Fermi LAT Collaboration

The public data from the EGRET space telescope on diffuse galactic gamma rays in the energy range from 0.1 to 10 GeV show an excess for energies above 1 GeV in comparison with the expectations from conventional galactic models. This excess…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 W. de Boer

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

Recent results from experiments like PAMELA have pointed to excesses of e+e- in cosmic rays. If interpreted in terms of Dark Matter annihilations, they imply the existence of an abundant population of e+e- in the galactic halo at large. We…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2009-08-11 Marco Cirelli , Paolo Panci

The observation of a sharp spectral feature in the gamma-ray sky would be one of the cleanest ways to identify dark matter and pinpoint its properties. Over the years a lot of attention has been paid to two specific features, namely…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2012-07-25 Alejandro Ibarra , Sergio López Gehler , Miguel Pato

Observations by the Large Area Telescope (LAT) on the \textit{Fermi} mission of diffuse $\gamma$-rays in a mid-latitude region in the third quadrant (Galactic longitude $l$ from $200\arcdeg$ to $260\arcdeg$ and latitude $| b |$ from…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2009-12-04 A. A. Abdo

We use diffuse Galactic high energy gamma ray data from LHAASO and Fermi-LAT to constrain gravitationally produced decaying dark matter (DM). Focusing on four benchmark candidates: a dark photon, a heavy right-handed neutrino (RHN), a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-12-12 Basabendu Barman , Arindam Das , Prantik Sarmah , Rakesh Kumar SivaKumar

We study the abilities of the Fermi-LAT instrument on board of the Fermi mission to simultaneously constrain the Milky Way dark matter density profile and some dark matter particle properties, as annihilation cross section, mass and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-27 Nicolas Bernal , Sergio Palomares-Ruiz

Dark matter captured by interaction with electrons inside the Sun may annihilate via long-lived mediator to produce observable gamma ray signals. We utilize solar gamma ray flux measurements from the Fermi Large Area Telescope and High…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-06-15 Debajit Bose , Tarak Nath Maity , Tirtha Sankar Ray

The positron excess observed by PAMELA and then confirmed by AMS 02 has intrigued the particle physics community since 2008. Various dark matter decay and annihilation models have been built to explain the excess. However, the bounds from…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-05-01 Yasaman Farzan , Meshkat Rajaee

X-ray and gamma-ray observations can help understand the origin of the electron and positron signals reported by ATIC, PAMELA, PPB-BETS, and Fermi. It remains unclear whether the observed high-energy electrons and positrons are produced by…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2012-04-03 Antoine Calvez , Warren Essey , Malcolm Fairbairn , Alexander Kusenko , Michael Loewenstein

Dark matter annihilation into photons in our galaxy would constitute an exciting indirect signal of its existence, as underscored by tentative evidence for 130 GeV dark matter in Fermi/LAT data. Models that give a large annihilation cross…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-11-11 James M. Cline , Grace Dupuis , Zuowei Liu

The quest for Dark Matter signals in the gamma-ray sky is one of the most intriguing and exciting challenges in astrophysics. In this paper we perform the analysis of the energy spectrum of the \textit{Fermi bubbles} at different latitudes,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-12-31 Wei-Chih Huang , Alfredo Urbano , Wei Xue

The data collected by ATIC, PPB-BETS, FERMI-LAT and HESS all indicate that there is an electron/positron excess in the cosmic ray energy spectrum above $\sim$ 100 GeV, although different instrumental teams do not agree on the detailed…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-01-18 Yi-Zhong Fan , Bing Zhang , Jin Chang

The mass to luminosity ratio of the dwarf satellite galaxies in the Milky Way suggests that these dwarf galaxies may contain substantial dark matter. The dark matter at the dense region such as within or at the vicinity of the centres of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-01-13 Ashadul Halder , Shibaji Banerjee , Madhurima Pandey , Debasish Majumdar

Gamma-ray searches for new physics such as dark matter are often driven by investigating the composition of the extragalactic gamma-ray background (EGB). Classic approaches to EGB decomposition manifest in resolving individual point sources…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-10-31 Hannes-S. Zechlin , Silvia Manconi , Fiorenza Donato

Coy dark matter is an effective scheme in which a fermionic dark matter candidate interacts with the Standard Model fermions via a pseudoscalar mediator. This simple setup avoids the strong constraints posed by direct detection experiments…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-06-21 Andi Hektor , Luca Marzola , Taavi Tuvi

Dark matter annihilation is one of the leading explanations for the recently observed $e^\pm$ excesses in cosmic rays by PAMELA, ATIC, FERMI-LAT and HESS. Any dark matter annihilation model proposed to explain these data must also explain…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-04-29 Xiao-Jun Bi , Xiao-Gang He , Ernest Ma , Juan Zhang