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Cosmic ray antiprotons can originate from dark matter annihilating into quarks that subsequently decay into antiprotons. Evaporation of primordial black holes also can produce a significant antiproton flux. Since the spectrum of secondary…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 J. Ormes , A. Moiseev , J. Wells

We calculate the rate of production of dark photons from electron-positron pair annihilation in hot and dense matter characteristic of supernova progenitors. Given the non-linear dependence of the emission rate on the dark photon mass and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-07-24 Ermal Rrapaj , Andre Sieverding , Yong-Zhong Qian

The positron excess in cosmic rays has stimulated a lot of interests in the last decade. The dark matter origin of the extra positrons has attracted great attention. However, the $\gamma$-ray search set very stringent constraints on the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-11-07 Xing-Jian Lv , Xiao-Jun Bi , Kun Fang , Peng-Fei Yin , Meng-Jie Zhao

The detection of byproducts from particle annihilations in galactic halos would provide important information about the nature of the dark matter. Observational evidence for a local excess of high-energy positrons has motivated recent…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-18 Brant Robertson , Andrew Zentner

Using an effective interaction approach to describe the interactions between the dark matter particle and the light degrees of freedom of the standard model, we calculate the antiproton flux due to the annihilation of the dark matter in the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-05-13 Kingman Cheung , Po-Yan Tseng , Tzu-Chiang Yuan

The annihilation of dark matter (DM) in the Galaxy could produce specific imprints on the spectra of antimatter species in Galactic cosmic rays, which could be detected by upcoming experiments such as PAMELA and AMS02. Recent studies show…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 P. Brun , G. Bertone , J. Lavalle , P. Salati , R. Taillet

Early studies of the AMS-02 antiproton ratio identified a possible excess over the expected astrophysical background that could be fit by the annihilation of a weakly interacting massive particle (WIMP). However, recent efforts have shown…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-01-26 Pedro De la Torre Luque , Martin Wolfgang Winkler , Tim Linden

Antiprotons are regarded as a powerful probe for Dark Matter (DM) indirect detection and indeed current data from PAMELA have been shown to lead to stringent constraints. However, in order to exploit their constraining/discovery power…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-20 Mathieu Boudaud , Marco Cirelli , Gaëlle Giesen , Pierre Salati

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

Anti-proton and positron Galactic cosmic ray spectra are among the key targets for indirect detection of dark matter. The boost factors, corresponding to an enhancement of the signal and linked to the clumpiness properties of the dark…

Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-18 J. Lavalle , Q. Yuan , D. Maurin , X. -J. Bi

An indirect measurement of the antiproton flux in cosmic rays is possible as the particles undergo deflection by the geomagnetic field. This effect can be measured by studying the deficit in the flux, or shadow, created by the Moon as it…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-05-18 A. U. Abeysekara , A. Albert , R. Alfaro , C. Alvarez , R. Arceo , J. C. Arteaga-Velázquez , D. Avila Rojas , H. A. Ayala Solares , E. Belmont-Moreno , S. Y. BenZvi , J. Braun , C. Brisbois , K. S. Caballero-Mora , T. Capistrán , A. Carramiñana , S. Casanova , M. Castillo , U. Cotti , J. Cotzomi , S. Coutiño de León , C. De León , E. D la Fuentem , R. Diaz Hernandez , S. Dichiara , B. L. Dingus , M. A. DuVernois , R. W. Ellsworth , K. Engels , O. Enríquez-Rivera , H. Fleischhack , N. Fraija , A. Galván-Gámez , J. A. García-González , A. González Muñoz , M. M. González , J. A. Goodman , Z. Hampel-Arias , J. P. Harding , S. Hernandez , B. Hona , F. Hueyotl-Zahuantitla , C. M. Hui , P. Hüntemeyer , A. Iriarte , A. Jardin-Blicq , V. Joshi , S. Kaufmann , A. Lara , W. H. Lee , H. León Vargas , J. T. Linnemann , A. L. Longinotti , G. Luis-Raya , R. Luna-García , R. López-Coto , K. Malone , S. S. Marinelli , O. Martinez , I. Martinez-Castellanos , J. Martínez-Castro , H. Martínez-Huerta , J. A. Matthews , P. Miranda-Romagnoli , E. Moreno , M. Mostafá , A. Nayerhoda , L. Nellena , M. Newbold , M. U. Nisa , R. Noriega-Papaqui , R. Pelayo , J. Pretz , E. G. Pérez-Pérez , Z. Ren , C. D. Rho , C. Riviére , D. Rosa-González , M. Rosenberg , E. Ruiz-Velasco , F. Salesa Greus , A. Sandoval , M. Schneider , H. Schoorlemmer , M. Seglar Arroyo , G. Sinnis , A. J. Smith , R. W. Springer , P. Surajbali , I. Taboada , O. Tibolla , K. Tollefson , I. Torres , L. Villaseñor , T. Weisgarber , S. Westerhoff , J. Wood , T. Yapici , G. B. Yodha , A. Zepeda , H. Zhou , J. D. Alvarez

The all-sky survey in high-energy gamma rays (E > 30 MeV) carried out by the Energetic Gamma Ray Experiment Telescope (EGRET) aboard the Compton Gamma-Ray Observatory provides a unique opportunity to examine in detail the diffuse gamma-ray…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-04-15 Yu. A. Golubkov , M. Yu. Khlopov

Recent studies of the cosmic-ray antiproton-to-proton ratio have identified an excess of $\sim$10-20 GeV antiprotons relative to the predictions of standard astrophysical models. Intriguingly, the properties of this excess are consistent…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-11-23 Ilias Cholis , Tim Linden , Dan Hooper

Indirect detection signals from dark matter annihilation are studied in the positron channel. We discuss in detail the positron propagation inside the galactic medium: we present novel solutions of the diffusion and propagation equations…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-09-14 N. Fornengo , T. Delahaye , R. Lineros , F. Donato , P. Salati

Antibaryons are produced in our Galaxy in collisions of high energy cosmic rays with the interstellar medium and in old supernova remnants, and possibly, in exotic sources such as primordial black hole evaporation or dark matter…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-02-22 Johannes Herms , Alejandro Ibarra , Andrea Vittino , Sebastian Wild

Dark-matter particles that annihilate or decay can undergo complex sequences of processes, including strong and electromagnetic radiation, hadronisation, and hadron decays, before particles that are stable on astrophysical time scales are…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-05-10 Adil Jueid , Jochem Kip , Roberto Ruiz de Austri , Peter Skands

We investigate the possibility that the antiproton-to-proton flux ratio which is measured in cosmic rays may be generated by neutralino-neutralino annihilation in the galactic halo. We study the most general compositions for the relic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 G. Mignola

Dark matter search in space has been carried out for many years. Measurements of cosmic ray photons, charged antiparticles and neutrinos are useful tools for dark matter indirect search. The antiparticle energy spectra of cosmic rays have…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-05-16 Jie Feng , Hong-Hao Zhang

In this paper we calculate the Galactic positron flux from dark matter annihilation in the frame of supersymmetry, taking the enhancement of the flux by existence of dark matter substructures into account. The propagation of positrons in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-10-27 Qiang Yuan , Xiao-Jun Bi

We have made a calculation of the propagation of positrons from dark-matter particle annihilation in the Galactic halo in different models of the dark matter halo distribution using our 3D code, and present fits to our numerical propagation…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 I. V. Moskalenko , A. W. Strong