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We study the capabilities of the Fermi-LAT instrument for identifying particle Dark Matter properties as mass, annihilation cross section and annihilation channels, with gamma-ray observations from the Galactic Center. For the potential…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2010-12-02 Nicolas Bernal

Recent gamma-ray and radio studies have obtained some stringent constraints on annihilating dark matter properties. However, only a few studies have focussed on using X-ray data to constrain annihilating dark matter. In this article, we…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-08-15 Man Ho Chan , Chak Man Lee

We assess Galactic Dark Matter (DM) sensitivities to photons from annihilation and decay using the spatial and kinematic information determined by state-of-the-art simulations in the Latte suite of Feedback In Realistic Environments…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-10-14 Dawei Zhong , Mauro Valli , Kevork N. Abazajian

Motivated by the gamma-ray excess observed from the region surrounding the Galactic Center, we explore particle dark matter models that could potentially account for the spectrum and normalization of this signal. Taking a model-independent…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-04 Asher Berlin , Dan Hooper , Samuel D. McDermott

We investigate and compare the possibilities of observing decaying dark matter (DM) in $\gamma$-ray and radio telescopes. The special emphasise of the study is on a scalar heavy DM particle with mass in the trans-TeV range. DM decays,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-09-07 Avirup Ghosh , Arpan Kar , Biswarup Mukhopadhyaya

We introduce a new type of gamma-ray spectral feature, which we denominate gamma-ray triangle. This spectral feature arises in scenarios where dark matter self-annihilates via a chiral interaction into two Dirac fermions, which subsequently…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-11-15 Alejandro Ibarra , Sergio Lopez-Gehler , Emiliano Molinaro , Miguel Pato

A number of theories, spanning a wide range of mass scales, predict dark matter candidates that have lifetimes much longer than the age of the universe, yet may produce a significant flux of gamma rays in their decays today. We constrain…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Hasan Yuksel , Matthew D. Kistler

We use high resolution numerical simulations of the formation of cold dark matter halos to simulate the background of decay products from neutralino annihilation, such as gamma-rays or neutrinos. Halos are non-spherical, have steep singular…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Carlos Calcaneo-Roldan , Ben Moore

Due to their proximity, high dark-matter content, and apparent absence of non-thermal processes, Milky Way dwarf spheroidal satellite galaxies (dSphs) are excellent targets for the indirect detection of dark matter. Recently, eight new dSph…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-08-18 LAT Collaboration , The DES Collaboration , A. Drlica-Wagner , A. Albert , K. Bechtol , M. Wood , L. Strigari , M. Sanchez-Conde , L. Baldini , R. Essig , J. Cohen-Tanugi , B. Anderson , R. Bellazzini , E. D. Bloom , R. Caputo , C. Cecchi , E. Charles , J. Chiang , A. de Angelis , S. Funk , P. Fusco , F. Gargano , N. Giglietto , F. Giordano , S. Guiriec , M. Gustafsson , M. Kuss , F. Loparco , P. Lubrano , N. Mirabal , T. Mizuno , A. Morselli , T. Ohsugi , E. Orlando , M. Persic , S. Raino , N. Sehgal , F. Spada , D. J. Suson , G. Zaharijas , S. Zimmer , T. Abbott , S. Allam , E. Balbinot , A. H. Bauer , A. Benoit-Levy , R. A. Bernstein , G. M. Bernstein , E. Bertin , D. Brooks , E. Buckley-Geer , D. L. Burke , A. Carnero Rosell , F. J. Castander , R. Covarrubias , C. B. D'Andrea , L. N. da Costa , D. L. DePoy , S. Desai , H. T. Diehl , C. E Cunha , T. F. Eifler , J. Estrada , A. E. Evrard , A. Fausti Neto , E. Fernandez , D. A. Finley , B. Flaugher , J. Frieman , E. Gaztanaga , D. Gerdes , D. Gruen , R. A. Gruendl , G. Gutierrez , K. Honscheid , B. Jain , D. James , T. Jeltema , S. Kent , R. Kron , K. Kuehn , N. Kuropatkin , O. Lahav , T. S. Li , E. Luque , M. A. G. Maia , M. Makler , M. March , J. Marshall , P. Martini , K. W. Merritt , C. Miller , R. Miquel , J. Mohr , E. Neilsen , B. Nord , R. Ogando , J. Peoples , D. Petravick , A. Pieres , A. A. Plazas , A. Queiroz , A. K. Romer , A. Roodman , E. S. Rykoff , M. Sako , E. Sanchez , B. Santiago , V. Scarpine , M. Schubnell , I. Sevilla , R. C. Smith , M. Soares-Santos , F. Sobreira , E. Suchyta , M. E. C. Swanson , G. Tarle , J. Thaler , D. Thomas , D. Tucker , A. Walker , R. H. Wechsler , W. Wester , P. Williams , B. Yanny , J. Zuntz

The evolution of dark matter in central areas of galaxies is considered (the Milky Way is taken as an example). It is driven by scattering off of dark matter particles by bulge stars, their absorption by the supermassive black hole and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Eugene Vasiliev , Maxim Zelnikov

Dark Matter annihilation holds great potential for directly probing the clumpiness of the Galactic halo that is one of the key predictions of the Cold Dark Matter paradigm of hierarchical structure formation. Here we review the gamma-ray…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-13 Michael Kuhlen

The recent observation of an X-ray line at an energy of 3.5 keV mainly from galaxy clusters has initiated a discussion about whether we may have seen a possible dark matter signal. If confirmed, this signal could stem from a decaying…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-09-30 Alexander Merle , Aurel Schneider

Neutralino dark matter can be indirectly detected by observing the gamma ray lines from the annihilation processes XX-->gg and XX-->gZ. In this paper we study the implications that the observation of these two lines could have for the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-01-08 Carlos E. Yaguna

Dark matter in the Milky Way may annihilate directly into gamma rays, producing a monoenergetic spectral line. Therefore, detecting such a signature would be strong evidence for dark matter annihilation or decay. We search for spectral…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-02-22 LAT Collaboration

We propose a dark matter model in which the signal in direct detection experiments arises from electromagnetic, not nuclear, energy deposition. This can provide a novel explanation for DAMA while avoiding many direct detection constraints.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-01-14 Brian Feldstein , Peter W. Graham , Surjeet Rajendran

Dark matter in spiral galaxies like the Milky Way may take the form of a dark plasma. Hidden sector dark matter charged under an unbroken $U(1)'$ gauge interaction provides a simple and well defined particle physics model realising this…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-01-27 Jackson D. Clarke , Robert Foot

We consider the process of scattering of Galactic cosmic-ray electrons and protons off of dark matter with the radiation of a final-state photon. This process provides a novel way to search for Galactic dark matter with gamma rays. We argue…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-05-28 Stefano Profumo , Lorenzo Ubaldi

In this paper we study the detectability of $\gamma$-rays from dark matter annihilation in the subhalos of the Milky Way by the satellite-based experiments, EGRET and GLAST. We work in the frame of supersymmetric extension of the standard…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Xiao-Jun Bi

The cosmological evolution can modify the dark matter (DM) properties in the early Universe to be vastly different from the properties today. Therefore, the relation between the relic abundance and the DM constraints today needs to be…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-03-15 Katsuya Hashino , Jia Liu , Xiao-Ping Wang , Ke-Pan Xie

I present a new indirect search for dark matter (DM) using Hydrogen-$\alpha$ (H$\alpha$) recombination emission. DM annihilation or decay products can ionize neutral gas; subsequent recombination cascades generate H$\alpha$ photons through…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-12-11 Rebecca K. Leane