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The paradigm of the neutralino dark matter predicts that the first gravitationally bound objects are earth-mass sized microhaloes, which would emit annihilation gamma-rays. Here we show that, though the flux from individual nearest…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Takeshi Oda , Tomonori Totani , Masahiro Nagashima

The study of the cross-correlation angular power spectrum between gravitational tracers and electromagnetic signals can be a powerful tool to constrain Dark Matter (DM) microscopic properties. In this work we correlate \Fermi\ diffuse…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-05-06 Xiuhui Tan , Manuel Colavincenzo

We discuss the neutrino constraints from solar and terrestrial dark matter (DM) annihilations in the inelastic dark matter (iDM) scenario after the recent CDMS II results. To reconcile the DAMA/LIBRA data with constraints from all other…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-11-20 Jing Shu , Peng-fei Yin , Shou-hua Zhu

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

We present a model-independent search for the gravitational wave background from cosmic domain walls (DWs) in the NANOGrav 12.5 years dataset and International PTA Data Release 2. DWs that annihilate at temperatures $\sim 20-50~\text{MeV}$…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-02-08 Ricardo Z. Ferreira , Alessio Notari , Oriol Pujolas , Fabrizio Rompineve

We use the latest ANTARES Galactic Ridge neutrino measurements to investigate their implications for indirect dark matter (DM) searches. We consider both annihilating and decaying DM scenarios, spanning a wide range of masses and final…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-05-20 Jaume Zuriaga-Puig , Pedro de la Torre Luque , Viviana Gammaldi

Cosmic strings, topological defects predicted by high-energy theories, may contribute to the late-time expansion of the Universe, effectively mimicking dynamical dark energy. We investigate four phenomenological extensions of the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-06 Hanyu Cheng , Eleonora Di Valentino , Luca Visinelli

Clusters of galaxies are the largest gravitationally-bound systems in the Universe. Their dynamics are dominated by dark matter (DM), which makes them among the best targets for indirect DM searches. We analyze 12 years of data collected by…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-05-03 Mattia Di Mauro , Judit Pérez-Romero , Miguel A. Sánchez-Conde , Nicolao Fornengo

We study the phenomenology of superheavy decaying dark matter with mass around $10^{10}$ GeV which can arise in the low-energy limit of string compactifications. Generic features of string theory setups (such as high scale supersymmetry…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-12-04 Rouzbeh Allahverdi , Chiara Arina , Marco Chianese , Michele Cicoli , Fabio Maltoni , Daniele Massaro , Jacek K. Osiński

We present the first complete Markov chain Monte Carlo analysis of cosmological models with evolving cosmic (super)string networks, using the unconnected segment model in the unequal-time correlator formalism. For ordinary cosmic string…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-06-08 Tom Charnock , Anastasios Avgoustidis , Edmund J. Copeland , Adam Moss

Axion-like particles (ALPs) are a compelling candidate for dark matter (DM), whose production is associated with the formation of a string-wall network. If walls bounded by strings persist, which requires the potential to have multiple…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-09-29 Graciela B. Gelmini , Anna Simpson , Edoardo Vitagliano

MMonochromatic neutrinos from dark matter annihilations ($\chi\chi\to \nu\bar\nu$) are always produced in association with a gamma-ray spectrum generated by electroweak bremsstrahlung. Consequently, these neutrino lines can be searched for…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-07-06 Farinaldo S. Queiroz , Carlos E. Yaguna , Christoph Weniger

We describe cosmic gamma-ray and neutrino signals of dark matter annihilation, explaining how the complementarity of these signals provides additional information that, if observable, can enlighten the particle nature of dark matter. This…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-05-30 Rouzbeh Allahverdi , Sheldon Campbell , Bhaskar Dutta

We evaluate dark matter (DM) limits from cosmic-ray antiproton observations using the recent precise AMS-02 measurements. We properly take into account cosmic-ray propagation uncertainties fitting at the same time DM and propagation…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-05-15 Alessandro Cuoco , Michael Krämer , Michael Korsmeier

It is widely thought that neutralinos, the lightest supersymmetric particles, could comprise most of the dark matter. If so, then dark halos will emit radio and gamma ray signals initiated by neutralino annihilation. A particularly…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Craig Tyler

The investigation of distant galaxy formation and evolution is a powerful tool to constrain dark matter scenarios, supporting and in some cases surpassing other astrophysical and experimental probes. The recent completion of the Hubble…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-04-01 Marco Castellano , Nicola Menci , Andrea Grazian , Alexander Merle , Norma G. Sanchez , Aurel Schneider , Maximilian Totzauer

Rare astrophysical events - cosmological gamma-ray bursts with energies over GeV - are considered as an origin of information about some SUSY parameters. The model of generation of the powerful gamma-ray bursts is proposed. According to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 R. S. Pasechnik , V. A. Beylin , V. I. Kuksa , G. M. Vereshkov

We consider the lightest supersymmetric particle (LSP), neutralino in minimal anomaly mediated supersymmetry breaking model (mAMSB) to be a possible candidate for weakly interacting massive particles (WIMP) or cold dark matter and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-06-28 Kamakshya Prasad Modak , Debasish Majumdar

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

An interesting strategy for indirect detection of Dark Matter comes through the amounts of electrons and positrons usually emitted by DM pair annihilation. The e+e- gyrating in the galactic magnetic field then produce secondary synchrotron…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-01-08 Enrico Borriello , Alessandro Cuoco , Gennaro Miele