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Photons produced in the annihilations of dark matter particles can be detected by gamma-ray telescopes; this technique of indirect detection serves as a cornerstone of the upcoming assault on the dark matter paradigm. The main obstacle to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-07-08 Eric J. Baxter , Scott Dodelson

In the last few years there has been some interest in WIMP Dark Matter models featuring a velocity dependent cross section through the Sommerfeld enhancement mechanism, which is a nonrelativistic effect due to massive bosons in the dark…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 Steen Hannestad , Thomas Tram

If dark matter decays or annihilates into electrons and positrons, it can affect radiation and cosmic-ray backgrounds. We review a novel, more general analysis of constraints on decaying dark matter models, by introducing the response…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-09-13 Le Zhang

Observations of cosmic rays are a sensitive probe of dark matter annihilation in our Galaxy. In this article we present an analysis of the AMS-02 antiproton data, reducing cosmic-ray propagation uncertainties by fitting at the same time…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-04-23 Alessandro Cuoco , Jan Heisig , Michael Korsmeier , Michael Krämer

We search for spectral features in Fermi-LAT gamma-rays coming from regions corresponding to eighteen brightest nearby galaxy clusters determined by the magnitude of their signal line-of-site integrals. We observe a double peak-like excess…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-05 Andi Hektor , Martti Raidal , Elmo Tempel

We consider dark matter which have non-zero electromagnetic form factors like electric/magnetic dipole moments and anapole moment for fermionic dark matter and Rayleigh form factor for scalar dark matter. We consider dark matter mass…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-07-21 Gaetano Lambiase , Subhendra Mohanty , Akhilesh Nautiyal , Soumya Rao

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

The rise in the energy spectrum of the positron ratio, observed by the PAMELA satellite above 10 GeV, and other cosmic ray measurements, have been interpreted as a possible signature of Dark Matter annihilation in the Galaxy. However, the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-11-18 Miguel Pato , Lidia Pieri , Gianfranco Bertone

Recent preliminary results from the PAMELA experiment indicate the presence of an excess of cosmic ray positrons above 10 GeV. In this letter, we consider possibility that this signal is the result of dark matter annihilations taking place…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-12-30 Ilias Cholis , Lisa Goodenough , Dan Hooper , Melanie Simet , Neal Weiner

The search for cosmic antideuterons has been proposed as a promising method to indirectly detect dark matter, due to the very small background flux from spallations expected at the energies relevant to experiments. The antideuteron flux…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-11 Alejandro Ibarra , Sebastian Wild

We calculate the cosmic ray positron and antiproton spectra of a gauge-Higgs dark matter candidate in a warped five-dimensional $SO(5) \times U(1)$ gauge-Higgs unification model. The stability of the gauge-Higgs boson is guaranteed by the H…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-11-21 Kingman Cheung , Jeonghyeon Song , Po-Yan Tseng

We revisit the Standard Model fit to electroweak precision observables using the latest data and the Particle Data Group value of the mass of the W boson. This analysis is repeated for the value reported by CDF. The constraints on the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-06-18 B. M. Loizos , X. G. Wang , A. W. Thomas , M. J. White , A. G. Williams

[Abridged]. We take advantage of the galaxy-like 3D dark matter map extracted from the HORIZON Project results to calculate the positron and antiproton fluxes from dark matter annihilation, in a model-independent approach as well as for…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-12-18 J. Lavalle , E. Nezri , F. -S. Ling , L. Athanassoula , R. Teyssier

The AMS-02 collaboration has just released the cosmic antiproton to proton ratio $\bar{p}/p$ with a high precision up to $\sim 450$ GeV. In this work, we calculate the secondary antiprotons generated by cosmic ray interactions with the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-04-28 Su-Jie Lin , Xiao-Jun Bi , Peng-Fei Yin , Zhao-Huan Yu

We use the latest cosmic microwave background (CMB) observations to provide updated constraints on the dark matter lifetime as well as on p-wave suppressed annihilation cross sections in the 1 MeV to 1 TeV mass range. In contrast to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-02-17 Roberta Diamanti , Laura Lopez-Honorez , Olga Mena , Sergio Palomares-Ruiz , Aaron C. Vincent

In hidden sector models, dark matter does not directly couple to the particle content of the Standard Model, strongly suppressing rates at direct detection experiments, while still allowing for large signals from annihilation. In this…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-08-25 Dan Hooper , Rebecca K. Leane , Yu-Dai Tsai , Shalma Wegsman , Samuel J. Witte

We study the collider, astrophysical and cosmological constraints on the dark matter sector of a conformal model within the framework of both the freeze out as well as the freeze in mechanism. The model has a dark sector with strong self…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-12-25 Prasenjit Sanyal , Alekha C. Nayak , Gopal Kashyap , Pankaj Jain

Recent Fermi-LAT observations of dwarf spheroidal galaxies in the Milky Way have placed strong limits on the gamma-ray flux from dark matter annihilation. In order to produce the strongest limit on the dark matter annihilation…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-09-28 Linda M. Carpenter , Russell Colburn , Jessica Goodman , Tim Linden

We consider dark matter annihilation into Standard Model particles and show that the least detectable final states, namely neutrinos, define an upper bound on the total cross section. Calculating the cosmic diffuse neutrino signal, and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 John F. Beacom , Nicole F. Bell , Gregory D. Mack

While the PAMELA collaboration has recently confirmed the cosmic ray positron excess, it is interesting to review the effects of dark matter (DM) subhalos on the predicted antimatter signals. We recall that, according to general subhalo…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 Julien Lavalle