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The BESS-Polar collaboration has recently performed a precise measurement of the local antiproton flux which is consistent with a pure secondary production of antiprotons. We constrain a possible primary component originating from dark…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-05-30 Rolf Kappl , Martin Wolfgang Winkler

Numerous simulations indicate that a large number of subhalos should be hosted by the Milky Way. The potential existence of a nearby subhalo could have important implications for our understanding of dark matter (DM) annihilation. In this…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-09-20 Yi Zhao , Xiao-Jun Bi , Su-Jie Lin , Peng-Fei Yin

If the Dark Matter is the neutral Majorana component of a multiplet which is charged under the electroweak interactions of the Standard Model, its main annihilation channel is into W+W-, while the annihilation into light fermions is…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2012-07-26 Paolo Ciafaloni , Denis Comelli , Andrea De Simone , Antonio Riotto , Alfredo Urbano

We study the cosmic ray antiprotons with updated constraints on the propagation, proton injection, and solar modulation parameters based on the newest AMS-02 data near the Earth and Voyager data in the local interstellar space, and on the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-06-15 Ming-Yang Cui , Xu Pan , Qiang Yuan , Yi-Zhong Fan , Hong-Shi Zong

It is well known that the annihilation of Majorana dark matter into fermions is helicity suppressed. Here, we point out that the underlying mechanism is a subtle combination of two distinct effects, and we present a comprehensive analysis…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-09-20 Torsten Bringmann , Francesca Calore , Ahmad Galea , Mathias Garny

Nearby clusters and groups of galaxies are potentially bright sources of high-energy gamma-ray emission resulting from the pair-annihilation of dark matter particles. However, no significant gamma-ray emission has been detected so far from…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-05-25 LAT Collaboration

Using the latest AMS-02 cosmic ray antiproton flux data, we search for potential dark matter annihilation signal. The background parameters about the propagation, source injection, and solar modulation are not assumed {\it a priori}, but…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-05-17 Ming-Yang Cui , Qiang Yuan , Yue-Lin Sming Tsai , Yi-Zhong Fan

We derive constraints on parameters of generic dark matter candidates by comparing theoretical predictions with the gamma-ray emission observed by the Fermi-LAT from the region around the Galactic Center. Our analysis is conservative since…

Cosmic ray signals from dipole-interacting dark matter annihilation are considered in the positron, antiproton and photon channels. The predicted signals in the positron channel could nicely account for the excess of positron fraction from…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-01-23 Jae Ho Heo , C. S. Kim

Boost factors of dark matter annihilation into antiprotons and electrons/positrons due to the clumpiness of dark matter distribution are studied in detail in this work, taking the Sommerfeld effect into account. It has been thought that the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2009-12-17 Qiang Yuan , Xiao-Jun Bi , Jia Liu , Peng-Fei Yin , Juan Zhang , Shou-Hua Zhu

In this work we perform a comprehensive statistical analysis of the AMS-02 electron, positron fluxes and the antiproton-to-proton ratio in the context of a simplified dark matter model. We include known, standard astrophysical sources and a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-05-25 Csaba Balázs , Tong Li

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

Considering dark matter capture in astrophysical objects such as neutron stars and brown dwarfs, followed by their annihilation into two neutrino and four neutrino final states, we derive new constraints on the mass and coupling of a novel…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-09-16 Basabendu Barman , Pooja Bhattacharjee , Arindam Das

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

Cross-correlating the gamma-ray background with local galaxy catalogs potentially gives stringent constraints on dark matter annihilation. We provide updated theoretical estimates of sensitivities to the annihilation cross section from…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-10-27 Shin'ichiro Ando

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

Numerical simulations of dark matter collapse and structure formation show that in addition to a large halo surrounding the baryonic component of our galaxy, there also exists a significant number of subhalos that extend hundreds of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-04-22 James M. Cline , Aaron C. Vincent , Wei Xue

The cosmic microwave background provides constraints on the annihilation and decay of light dark matter at redshifts between 100 and 1000, the strength of which depends upon the fraction of energy ending up in the form of electrons and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-04-29 James M. Cline , Pat Scott

We test the dark photon as a portal connecting to the dark sector in the case of Dirac fermion and complex scalar dark matter with masses up to 1 TeV. Both the dark photon and the $Z$ boson contribute to the dark matter annihilation and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-04-10 X. G. Wang , B. M. Loizos , A. W. Thomas

We consider an inelastic dark matter model, where a fermion is charged under a broken U(1) gauge symmetry, and introduce a tiny Majorana mass term to split the fermion into two states with the light one being a dark matter candidate. If the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-02-12 Gerardo Alvarez , Hai-Bo Yu