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The Dark Matter Particle Explorer (DAMPE) satellite detector announced its first result for measuring the cosmic-ray electron/positron (CRE) energy spectrum up to 4.6TeV, including a tentative peak-like event excess at (1.3-1.5)TeV. In this…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-04-10 Shao-Feng Ge , Hong-Jian He , Yu-Chen Wang

We extract the positron and electron fluxes in the energy range 10 - 100 GeV by combining the recent data from PAMELA and Fermi LAT. The {\it absolute positron and electron} fluxes thus obtained are found to obey the power laws: $E^{-2.65}$…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-19 C. Balázs , N. Sahu , A. Mazumdar

Recent observations of cosmic ray electrons from several instruments have revealed various degrees of deviation in the measured electron energy distribution from a simple power-law, in a form of an excess around TeV energies. An even more…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-13 Lukasz Stawarz , Vahe Petrosian , Roger D. Blandford

While the excess in cosmic-ray electrons and positrons reported by PAMELA and Fermi may be explained by dark matter decaying primarily into charged leptons, this does not necessarily mean that dark matter should not have any hadronic decay…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-02-16 Chuan-Ren Chen , Sourav K. Mandal , Fuminobu Takahashi

Taking into account spins, we classify all two-body non-relativistic Dark Matter annihilation channels to the allowed polarization states of Standard Model particles, computing the energy spectra of the stable final-state particles relevant…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-10-07 Marco Cirelli , Mario Kadastik , Martti Raidal , Alessandro Strumia

It is commonly assumed that dark matter may be composed of one or at most a few elementary particles. PAMELA data present a window of opportunity into a possible relationship between luminous and dark matter. Along with ATIC data the two…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-11-18 Paul H. Frampton , Pham Q. Hung

We discuss the recently observed `excesses' in cosmic ray electron and positron fluxes which have been widely interpreted as signals of dark matter. By considering the production and acceleration of secondary electrons and positrons in…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-08-23 Philipp Mertsch , Subir Sarkar

Employing Fermi-LAT gamma ray observations, several independent groups have found excess extended gamma ray emission at the Galactic center (GC). Both, annihilating dark matter (DM) or a population of $\sim 10^3$ unresolved millisecond…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-12-12 Chris Gordon , Oscar Macias

We propose a comprehensive theory of dark matter that explains the recent proliferation of unexpected observations in high-energy astrophysics. Cosmic ray spectra from ATIC and PAMELA require a WIMP with mass M_chi ~ 500 - 800 GeV that…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-02-26 Nima Arkani-Hamed , Douglas P. Finkbeiner , Tracy R. Slatyer , Neal Weiner

The Fermi Large Area Telescope has observed an excess of ~GeV energy gamma rays from the center of the Milky Way, which may arise from near-thermal dark matter annihilation. Firmly establishing the dark matter origin for this excess is…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-07-22 Malte Buschmann , Nicholas L. Rodd , Benjamin R. Safdi , Laura J. Chang , Siddharth Mishra-Sharma , Mariangela Lisanti , Oscar Macias

The detection of gamma-rays, antiprotons and positrons due to pair annihilation of dark matter particles in the Milky Way halo is a viable indirect technique to search for signatures of supersymmetric dark matter where the major challenge…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-02-17 Aldo Morselli , Igor V. Moskalenko

Numerous experimental anomalies hint at the existence of a dark matter (DM) multiplet chi_i with small mass splittings. We survey the simplest such models which arise from DM in the low representations of a new SU(2) gauge symmetry, whose…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-29 Fang Chen , James M. Cline , Andrew R. Frey

The apparent gamma-ray excess in the Galactic center region and inner Galaxy has attracted considerable interest, notably because both its spectrum and radial distribution are consistent with an interpretation in terms of annihilating dark…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-12-03 Torsten Bringmann , Martin Vollmann , Christoph Weniger

In the light of the latest measurements on the total $e^+ + e^-$ flux by CALET and DAMPE experiments, we revisit the multicomponent leptonically decaying dark matter (DM) explanations to the cosmic-ray electron/positron excesses observed…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-09-22 Chao-Qiang Geng , Da Huang , Lu Yin

The Fermi gamma ray space telescope data have pointed towards an excess of gamma rays with a peak around $1-3$ GeV in the region surrounding the galactic center. This anomalous excess can be described well by a dark matter candidate having…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-05-09 Debasish Borah , Arnab Dasgupta

Over the past few years, there has been a hint of the $\gamma$-ray excess observed by the Fermi-LAT satellite borne telescope from the regions surrounding the Galactic Centre at an energy range $\sim 1$-$3$ GeV. The nature of this excess…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-03-21 Anirban Biswas

Inspired by the excess of gamma rays from the Galactic Center, we confront a number of simplified dark matter models with experimental data. Assuming a single dark matter particle coupled to standard matter via a spin-0 mediator, we compare…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-10-01 Csaba Balázs , Tong Li

Dark matter is a popular candidate to a new source of primary-charged particles, especially positrons in cosmic rays, which are proposed to account for observable anomalies. While this hypothesis of decaying or annihilating DM is mostly…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-11-13 Konstantin Belotsky , Maxim Solovyov

The particle origin of dark matter (DM) remains elusive despite decades of direct, indirect, and collider searches. Several groups have reported a $\gamma$-ray excess toward the Galactic Centre, commonly referred to as the Galactic Centre…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-12-01 Jordan Koechler , Mattia Di Mauro

We compare the full-sky morphology of the 511 keV gamma ray excess measured by the INTEGRAL/SPI experiment to predictions of models based on dark matter (DM) scatterings that produce low-energy positrons: either MeV-scale DM that…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-03 Aaron C. Vincent , Pierrick Martin , James M. Cline