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If dark matter (DM) particles are lighter than a few MeV/$c^2$ and can scatter off electrons, their interaction within the solar interior results in a considerable hardening of the spectrum of galactic dark matter received on Earth. For a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-11-19 Haipeng An , Maxim Pospelov , Josef Pradler , Adam Ritz

The energy spectra of particles produced from dark matter (DM) annihilation or decay are one of the fundamental ingredients to calculate the predicted fluxes of cosmic rays and radiation searched for in indirect DM detection. We revisit the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-12-05 Chiara Arina , Mattia Di Mauro , Nicolao Fornengo , Jan Heisig , Adil Jueid , Roberto Ruiz de Austri

In this talk, we discuss the physics modelling of particle spectra arising from dark matter (DM) annihilation or decay. In the context of the indirect searches of DM, the final state products will, in general, undergo a set of complicated…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-12-17 Simone Amoroso , Sascha Caron , Adil Jueid , Roberto Ruiz de Austri , Peter Skands

We present exoplanets as new targets to discover Dark Matter (DM). Throughout the Milky Way, DM can scatter, become captured, deposit annihilation energy, and increase the heat flow within exoplanets. We estimate upcoming infrared telescope…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-04-26 Rebecca K. Leane , Juri Smirnov

If sub-GeV Dark matter(DM) annihilates to the charged particles such as $e^+ e^-$, $\mu^+ \mu^-$, or $\pi^+ \pi^-$, it generates an additional source of electrons and positrons in the cosmic ray (CR) population within our Milky Way. During…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-12-10 Guansen Wang , Bing-Yu Su , Lei Zu , Lei Feng

The excess above 1 GeV in the energy spectrum of the diffuse Galactic gamma radiation, measured with the EGRET experiment, can be interpreted as the annihilation of Dark Matter (DM) particles. The DM is distributed in a halo around the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-10-29 Markus Weber

The extragalactic dark matter (DM) annihilation signal depends on the product of the clumping factor, <\delta^2>, and the velocity-weighted annihilation cross section, \sigma v. This "clumping factor-\sigma v" degeneracy can be broken by…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-04-18 Kenny C. Y. Ng , Ranjan Laha , Sheldon Campbell , Shunsaku Horiuchi , Basudeb Dasgupta , Kohta Murase , John F. Beacom

We study the prospects for detecting the annihilation products of Dark Matter [DM] in the framework of the two highest-resolution numerical simulations currently available, i.e. {\it Via Lactea II} and {\it Aquarius}. We propose a strategy…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2011-02-01 Lidia Pieri , Julien Lavalle , Gianfranco Bertone , Enzo Branchini

A series of experiments measuring high-energy cosmic rays have recently reported strong indications for the existence of an excess of high-energy electrons and positrons. If interpreted in terms of the decay of dark matter particles, the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-01-15 Alejandro Ibarra , David Tran , Christoph Weniger

Dark matter (DM) particles decaying in the Galactic halo can inject energetic $e^\pm$ that inverse-Compton scatter (ICS) solar photons into $\gamma$-rays, producing a diffuse and extended halo of emission around the Sun. We present the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-04-02 Maximilian Detering , Shyam Balaji

Detecting the dark matter annihilation signal from Galactic substructure, or subhalos, is an important challenge for high-energy gamma-ray experiments. In this paper we discuss detection prospects by combining two different aspects of the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2010-12-24 Eric J. Baxter , Scott Dodelson , Savvas M. Koushiappas , Louis E. Strigari

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

In supersymmetric unified theories the dark matter particle can decay, just like the proton, through grand unified interactions with a lifetime of order of 10^{26} sec. Its decay products can be detected by several experiments -- including…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-09-24 Asimina Arvanitaki , Savas Dimopoulos , Sergei Dubovsky , Peter W. Graham , Roni Harnik , Surjeet Rajendran

Despite mounting evidence that dark matter (DM) exists in the Universe, its fundamental nature remains unknown. We present sensitivity estimates to detect DM particles with a future very-high-energy ($\gtrsim$ TeV) wide field-of-view…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-12-24 Aion Viana , Harm Schoorlemmer , Andrea Albert , Vitor de Souza , J. Patrick Harding , Jim Hinton

We present constraints on decaying and annihilating dark matter (DM) in the 4 keV to 10 GeV mass range, using published results from the satellites HEAO-1, INTEGRAL, COMPTEL, EGRET, and the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope. We derive…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-17 Rouven Essig , Eric Kuflik , Samuel D. McDermott , Tomer Volansky , Kathryn M. Zurek

Annihilating dark matter (DM) models offer promising avenues for future DM detection, in particular via modification of astrophysical signals. However when modelling such potential signals at high redshift the emergence of both dark matter…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-12-27 Sarah Schon , Katherine J. Mack , Stuart B. Wyithe

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

Observations of diffuse Galactic gamma ray emission (DGE) by the Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) allow a detailed study of cosmic rays and the interstellar medium. However, diffuse emission models of the inner Galaxy underpredict the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-04-03 Lin F. Yang , Joseph Silk , Alexander S. Szalay , Rosemary F. G. Wyse , Brandon Bozek , Piero Madau

The indirect detection of dark matter (DM) through its annihilation products is one of the primary strategies for DM detection. One of the least constrained classes of models is neutrinophilic DM, because the annihilation products, weakly…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-03-21 Anna M. Suliga , George M. Fuller

If dark matter (DM) is composed by particles which are non-gravitationally coupled to ordinary matter, their annihilations or decays in cosmic structures can result in detectable radiation. We show that the most powerful technique to detect…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Marco Regis , Jun-Qing Xia , Alessandro Cuoco , Enzo Branchini , Nicolao Fornengo , Matteo Viel