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Recently, it has been shown that electrons and positrons from dark matter (DM) annihilations provide an excellent fit to the Fermi, PAMELA, and HESS data. Using this DM model, which requires an enhancement of the annihilation cross section…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2009-11-20 Anders Pinzke , Christoph Pfrommer , Lars Bergstrom

The extragalactic $\gamma$-ray background and its spatial anisotropy could potentially contain a signature of dark matter (DM) annihilation or particle decay. Astrophysical foregrounds, such as blazars and star-forming galaxies (SFGs),…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-02-22 Chang Feng , Asantha Cooray , Brian Keating

The origin of the extragalactic gamma-ray background is a pressing cosmological mystery. The Fermi Gamma-Ray Space Telescope has recently measured the intensity and spectrum of this background; both are substantially different from previous…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-11-16 Brian D. Fields , Vasiliki Pavlidou , Tijana Prodanovic

We estimate the probability of detecting gamma-rays from the annihilation of neutralino dark matter in the substructure of the Milky Way. We characterize substructure statistically based on Monte Carlo realizations of the formation of a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Savvas M. Koushiappas , Andrew R. Zentner , Terrence P. Walker

Measurement of the extragalactic background (EGBR) of diffuse gamma-rays is perhaps one of the most challenging tasks for future gamma-ray observatories, such as GLAST. This is because any determination will depend on accurate subtraction…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-08-02 A. Sellerholm , J. Conrad , L. Bergstrom , J. Edsjo

The majority of gamma-ray emission from Galactic dark matter annihilation is likely to be detected as a contribution to the diffuse gamma-ray background. I show that dark matter substructure in the halo of the Galaxy induces characteristic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-07-13 Jennifer M. Siegal-Gaskins

A brief review of the indirect detection signatures of dark matter is given. In particular, detection methods of dark matter particle annihilation to antimatter and gamma-rays are reviewed. With the GLAST satellite soon to be launched, a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Lars Bergstrom

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

The GLAST satellite mission will study the gamma ray sky with considerably greater exposure than its predecessor EGRET. In addition, it will be capable of measuring the arrival directions of gamma rays with much greater precision. These…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Scott Dodelson , Dan Hooper , Pasquale D. Serpico

The addition of non-renormalizable terms involving the Higgs fields to the MSSM ameliorates the little hierarchy problem of the MSSM. For neutralino dark matter, new regions for which the relic abundance of the LSP is consistent with WMAP…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-05-13 Nicolas Bernal

A new estimation of the isotropic diffuse gamma-ray background (IGRB) observed by the Large Area Telescope (LAT) on board the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope (Fermi) has been presented for 50 months of data, in the energy range 100 MeV-820…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-05-17 Mattia Di Mauro , Fiorenza Donato

The isotropic diffuse $\gamma$-ray background (IGRB) has been detected by various experiments and recently the Fermi-LAT Collaboration has precisely measured its spectrum in a wide energy range. The origin of the IGRB is still unclear and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-06-22 Mattia Di Mauro

Cross-correlating gamma-ray maps with locations of galaxies in the low-redshift Universe vastly increases sensitivity to signatures of annihilation of dark matter particles. Low-redshift galaxies are ideal targets, as the largest…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-07-14 Shin'ichiro Ando , Aurélien Benoit-Lévy , Eiichiro Komatsu

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

The detection of non-baryonic dark matter through its gamma-ray annihilation in the centre of our galaxy has been studied. The gamma fluxes according to different models have been simulated and compared to those expected to be observed with…

The observation of a gamma-ray line in the cosmic-ray fluxes would be a smoking-gun signature for dark matter annihilation or decay in the Universe. We present an improved search for such signatures in the data of the Fermi Large Area…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2012-08-09 Christoph Weniger

If dark matter is unstable and the mass is within GeV-TeV regime, its decays produce high-energy photons that give contribution to the extragalactic gamma-ray background (EGRB). We constrain dark matter decay by analyzing the 50-month EGRB…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 Shin'ichiro Ando , Koji Ishiwata

The energy-dependence of the anisotropy (the anisotropy energy spectrum) of the large-scale diffuse gamma-ray background can reveal the presence of multiple source populations. Annihilating dark matter in the substructure of the Milky Way…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-20 Brandon S. Hensley , Jennifer M. Siegal-Gaskins , Vasiliki Pavlidou

In this article, we review the prospects for the Fermi satellite (formerly known as GLAST) to detect gamma rays from dark matter annihilations in the Central Region of the Milky Way, in particular on the light of the recent astrophysical…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-03-13 Pasquale Dario Serpico , Dan Hooper

A leading hypothesis for the nature of the elusive dark matter are thermally produced, weakly interacting massive particles that arise in many theories beyond the standard model of particle physics. Their self-annihilation in astrophysical…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-08-23 Torsten Bringmann