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Dark matter direct detection experiments impose the strong bounds on thermal dark matter scenarios. The bound can naturally be evaded if the cross section is momentum transfer or velocity dependent. One can test such thermal dark matter…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-02-23 Mayumi Aoki , Takashi Toma

The Galactic center $\gamma$-ray excess, detected by the Fermi-LAT, is a very attractive tentative signal from dark matter annihilation. Searching for associated synchrotron emissions can test the dark matter interpretation for this excess.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-05-18 Wen-Qing Guo , Yichao Li , Xiaoyuan Huang , Yin-Zhe Ma , Geoff Beck , Yogesh Chandola , Feng Huang

Dark Stars (DS) may constitute the first phase of stellar evolution, powered by dark matter (DM) annihilation. We will investigate here the properties of DS assuming the DM particle has the required properties to explain the excess positron…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-06-02 Cosmin Ilie , Katherine Freese , Douglas Spolyar

The IceCube Neutrino Observatory has observed highly energetic neutrinos in excess of the expected atmospheric neutrino background. It is intriguing to consider the possibility that such events are probing physics beyond the standard model.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-19 Jesus Zavala

In the light of the new IceCube data on the (yet unidentified) astrophysical neutrino flux in the PeV and sub-PeV range, we present an update on the status of decaying dark matter interpretation of the events. In particular, we develop…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-01-12 Arman Esmaili , Sin Kyu Kang , Pasquale Dario Serpico

Self-interacting dark matter models constitute an attractive solution to problems in structure formation on small scales. A simple realization of these models considers the dark force mediated by a light particle which can couple to the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-03-06 Denis S. Robertson , Ivone F. M. Albuquerque

We construct empirical models of the diffuse gamma-ray background toward the Galactic Center. Including all known point sources and a template of emission associated with interactions of cosmic rays with molecular gas, we show that the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-07-23 Kevork N. Abazajian , Nicolas Canac , Shunsaku Horiuchi , Manoj Kaplinghat

This study reanalyzes the detection prospects of dark matter (DM) annihilation signals in the Galactic Center, focusing on velocity-dependent dynamics within a spike density near the supermassive black hole (Sgr~A$^{\star}$). We investigate…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-10-25 MeiWen Yang , Zhi-Qi Guo , Xiao-Yi Luo , Zhao-Qiang Shen , Zi-Qing Xia , Chih-Ting Lu , Yue-Lin Sming Tsai , Yi-Zhong Fan

Recently, self-annihilation of dark matter particles is proposed to explain the "WMAP Haze" and excess of energetic positrons and electrons in ATIC and PAMELA results. If self-annihilation of dark matter occurs around the recombination of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 Jaiseung Kim , Pavel Naselsky

Dark matter (DM) annihilation can be significantly enhanced through narrow resonances or the Sommerfeld enhancement effect, with both mechanisms potentially combining in a super-resonant annihilation process. In such scenarios, the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-11-12 Murat Abdughani , Shao-Song Tang , Kadirya Tursun , Bin Zhu

The South Pole Telescope (SPT), Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT), and Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) have each reported measurements of the cosmic microwave background's (CMB) angular power spectrum which favor the existence…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-05-30 Dan Hooper , Farinaldo S. Queiroz , Nickolay Y. Gnedin

We perform a new dark matter hot spot analysis using ten years of public IceCube data. This analysis assumes dark matter self-annihilates to neutrino pairs and treats the production sites as discrete point sources. As a result, these sites…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-09-15 Stephan Meighen-Berger , Martina Karl

We review the annihilation of dark matter into neutrinos over a range of dark matter masses from MeV$/c^2$ to ZeV$/c^2$. Thermally-produced models of dark matter are expected to self-annihilate to standard model products. As no such signal…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-09-22 Carlos A. Argüelles , Alejandro Diaz , Ali Kheirandish , Andrés Olivares-Del-Campo , Ibrahim Safa , Aaron C. Vincent

We analyze the recently published Fermi-LAT diffuse gamma-ray measurements in the context of leptonically annihilating or decaying dark matter (DM) with the aim to explain simultaneously the isotropic diffuse gamma-ray and the PAMELA, Fermi…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-11-20 Gert Hütsi , Andi Hektor , Martti Raidal

The positron excess observed by PAMELA and then confirmed by AMS 02 has intrigued the particle physics community since 2008. Various dark matter decay and annihilation models have been built to explain the excess. However, the bounds from…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-05-01 Yasaman Farzan , Meshkat Rajaee

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

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…

The construction of the IceCube neutrino observatory is practically terminated. At the time of this writing, and with 79 strings taking data out of the 86 foreseen, we are one deployment season away from completion. The detector, however,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2010-12-02 Carlos de los Heros

Direct detection of light dark matter can be significantly enhanced by up-scattering of dark matter with energetic particles in the cosmic ambient. This boosted dark matter flux can reach kinetic energies up to tens of MeV, while the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-03-18 Dilip Kumar Ghosh , Tushar Gupta , Matti Heikinheimo , Katri Huitu , Sk Jeesun

The precise measurements of energy spectra of cosmic ray positrons and/or electrons by recent experiments show clear excesses above 10 GeV. Moreover, a potential sharp spectral feature was suggested by the Dark Matter Particle Explorer…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-04-29 Lei Feng , Zhaofeng Kang , Qiang Yuan , Peng-Fei Yin , Yi-Zhong Fan