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The nonrelativistic annihilation of Majorana dark matter in the Sun to a pair of light fermions is chirality-suppressed. Annihilation to 3-body final states $\ell^+f^-V$, where $V=W,Z,\gamma$, and $\ell$ and $f$ are light fermions (that may…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2012-10-29 Keita Fukushima , Yu Gao , Jason Kumar , Danny Marfatia

We compute the single bremsstrahlung emission associated with the pair annihilation of spin-0 particles into electrons and positrons, via the t-channel exchange of a heavy fermion. We compare our result with the work of Beacom et al. .…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 C. Boehm , P. Uwer

If the Dark Matter (DM) in the Universe has interactions with the standard-model particle, the pair annihilation may give the imprints in the cosmic ray. In this paper we study the pair annihilation processes of the DM, which is neutral,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-04-06 Junji Hisano , Shigeki Matsumoto , Mihoko M. Nojiri

Detection of gamma rays from dark matter annihilation in the galactic center is one of the feasible techniques to search for dark matter. We evaluate the gamma ray flux in the case that the dark matter has an electroweak SU(2)_L charge.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-10 Junji Hisano , Shigeki. Matsumoto , Mihoko M. Nojiri , Osamu Saito

Recent analyses have shown that the inclusion of electroweak corrections can alter significantly the energy spectra of Standard Model particles originated from dark matter annihilations. We investigate the important situation where the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-06-21 Paolo Ciafaloni , Marco Cirelli , Denis Comelli , Andrea De Simone , Antonio Riotto , Alfredo Urbano

Using gamma-ray data from observations of the Milky Way, Andromeda (M31), and the cosmic background, we calculate conservative upper limits on the dark matter self-annihilation cross section to a number of final states, over a wide range of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-11-20 T. D. Jacques

We use recently released data on the positron-to-electron ratio in cosmic rays from the AMS-02 experiment to constrain dark matter annihilation in the Milky Way. Due to the yet unexplained positron excess, limits are generally weaker than…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-10-31 Joachim Kopp

If the present dark matter in the Universe annihilates into Standard Model particles, it must contribute to the gamma ray fluxes detected on the Earth. The magnitude of such contribution depends on the particular dark matter candidate, but…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-09-26 Álvaro de la Cruz-Dombriz , Viviana Gammaldi

What is Dark Matter, and what is its concentration in the Milky Way remains an open question in physics. We show that if a significant fraction of dark matter is composed of sub-solar mass primordial black holes (PBHs), gravitational…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-31 Samsuzzaman Afroz , Suvodip Mukherjee

Recent observations by the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS-02) have tentatively detected a handful of cosmic-ray antihelium events. Such events have long been considered as smoking-gun evidence for new physics, because astrophysical…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-03-17 Martin Wolfgang Winkler , Tim Linden

Dark-matter annihilation into electroweak gauge and Higgs bosons results in $\gamma$-ray emission. We use observational upper limits on the fluxes of both line and continuum $\gamma$-rays from the Milky Way Galactic Center and from Milky…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-01-06 Michael A. Fedderke , Edward W. Kolb , Tongyan Lin , Lian-Tao Wang

A wide range of mechanisms predict present-day s-wave dark matter (DM) annihilation cross-sections that are orders of magnitude below current experimental sensitivity. We explore the capability of DM density spikes around the Milky Way's…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-07-29 Barry T. Chiang , Stuart L. Shapiro , Jessie Shelton

In the indirect detection of dark matter through its annihilation products, the signals depend on the square of the dark matter density, making precise knowledge of the distribution of dark matter in the Universe critical for robust…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Hasan Yuksel , Shunsaku Horiuchi , John F. Beacom , Shin'ichiro Ando

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

Dark matter annihilation in dwarf spheroidal (dSph) galaxies near the Milky Way has the potential to produce a detectable signature in gamma-rays. The amplitude of this signal depends on the dark matter density in a dSph, the dark matter…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-08-09 Eric J. Baxter , Jason Kumar , Andrew B. Pace , Jack Runburg

We use six, high-resolution $\Lambda$CDM simulations of galaxy formation to study how emission from dark matter annihilation is affected by baryonic processes. These simulations produce isolated, disc-dominated galaxies with structure,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-01-06 Robert J J Grand , Simon D M White

Arguably, the most popular candidate for Dark Matter (DM) is a massive, stable, Majorana fermion. However, annihilation of Majorana DM to two fermions often features a helicity-suppressed s-wave rate. Radiating a gauge boson via electroweak…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-12 Thomas J. Weiler

We compute the electromagnetic radiative corrections to all leading annihilation processes which may occur in the Galactic dark matter halo, for dark matter in the framework of supersymmetric extensions of the Standard Model (MSSM and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 Torsten Bringmann , Lars Bergstrom , Joakim Edsjo

We study sub-GeV dark matter (DM) particles that may annihilate or decay into SM particles producing an exotic injection component in the Milky Way that leaves an imprint in both photon and cosmic ray (CR) fluxes. Specifically, the DM…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-04-25 Pedro De la Torre Luque , Shyam Balaji , Jordan Koechler

We reconsider Sommerfeld-enhanced annihilation of dark matter (DM) into leptons to explain PAMELA and Fermi electron and positron observations, in light of possible new effects from substructure. There is strong tension between getting a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-12-23 Aaron C Vincent , Wei Xue , James M Cline