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Galactic diffuse continuum gamma-ray emission is intricately related to cosmic-ray physics and radio astronomy. We describe recent results from an approach which endeavours to take advantage of this. Information from cosmic-ray composition…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-12-13 A. W. Strong , I. V. Moskalenko , O. Reimer

We consider the process of scattering of Galactic cosmic-ray electrons and protons off of dark matter with the radiation of a final-state photon. This process provides a novel way to search for Galactic dark matter with gamma rays. We argue…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-05-28 Stefano Profumo , Lorenzo Ubaldi

Recent measurements of cosmic ray leptons by PAMELA, ATIC, HESS and Fermi revealed interesting excesses. Many authors suggested particle Dark Matter (DM) annihilations could be at the origin of these effects. In this paper, we critically…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-20 Pierre Brun

In this article, I summarize and discuss the body of evidence which has accumulated in favor of dark matter in the form of approximately 10 GeV particles. This evidence includes the spectrum and angular distribution of gamma rays from the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-01-09 Dan Hooper

Low-energy background through Compton scattering from the ambient $\gamma$ rays can be contaminated in direct dark matter search experiments. In this paper, we report comparable measurements on low-energy spectra via Compton scattering from…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2023-04-26 J. W. Hu , L. T. Yang , Q. Yue , X. P. Geng , H. B. Li , Y. F. Liang , S. T. Lin , S. K. Liu , H. Ma , L. Wang , H. T. Wong , B. T. Zhang

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 propose and experimentally demonstrate a method for detection of light scalar Dark Matter (DM), through probing temporal oscillations of fundamental constants in an atomic optical transition. Utilizing the quantum information notion of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-04-28 Shahaf Aharony , Nitzan Akerman , Roee Ozeri , Gilad Perez , Inbar Savoray , Ravid Shaniv

The extragalactic $\gamma$-ray background and its spatial anisotropy could potentially contain a signature of dark matter (DM) annihilation or particle decay. Astrophysical foregrounds, such as blazars and star-forming galaxies (SFGs),…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-02-22 Chang Feng , Asantha Cooray , Brian Keating

Dark matter (DM) self-interactions alter the matter distribution on galactic scales and alleviate tensions with observations. A feature of the self-interaction cross section is its angular dependence, influencing offsets between galaxies…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-02-26 Cenanda Arido , Moritz S. Fischer , Mathias Garny

Indirect searches for dark matter annihilation or decay products in the cosmic-ray spectrum are plagued by the question of how to disentangle a dark matter signal from the omnipresent astrophysical background. One of the practically…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-03 Christoph Weniger , Torsten Bringmann , Francesca Calore , Gilles Vertongen

A new calculation of the Galactic diffuse gamma-ray spectrum from the decay of secondary particles produced by interactions of cosmic-ray protons with interstellar matter is presented. The calculation utilizes the modern Monte Carlo event…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 Masaki Mori

Recently, a spatially extended excess of gamma rays collected by the Fermi-LAT from the inner region of the Milky Way has been detected by different groups and with increasingly sophisticated techniques. Yet, any final conclusion about the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-02-11 Francesca Calore , Ilias Cholis , Christoph Weniger

If DM-matter scatterings are assumed to occur in a detector's target material, collisions will naturally take place inside the bulk of planets and stars as well. For large cross sections, these scatterings might occur in the Earth or Sun…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-06-19 Timon Emken

We consider a self-interacting dark matter model in which the massive dark photon mediating the self-interaction decays to light dark fermions to avoid over-closing the universe. We find that if the model is constrained to explain the dark…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-07-05 Ran Huo , Manoj Kaplinghat , Zhen Pan , Hai-Bo Yu

Dwarf galaxies represent a powerful probe of annihilating dark matter particle models, with gamma-ray data setting some of the best bounds available. A major issue in improving over existing constraints consists in the limited knowledge of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-11-14 Francesca Calore , Pasquale D. Serpico , Bryan Zaldivar

We suggest a minimal model for GeV-scale Majorana Dark Matter (DM) coupled to the standard model lepton sector via a charged scalar singlet. We show that there is an anti-correlation between the spin-independent DM-Nucleus scattering…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-04-21 Adil Jueid , Salah Nasri , Rachik Soualah

Gamma-ray is a good probe of dark matter (DM) particles in the Universe. We search for the DM annihilation signals in the direction of the Andromeda galaxy (M31) using 7.5 year Fermi-LAT pass 8 data. Similar to Pshirkov et al. (2016), we…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-12-21 Zhengwei Li , Xiaoyuan Huang , Qiang Yuan , Yupeng Xu

The indirect detection of particle dark matter (DM) is based on the search for anomalous components in cosmic rays (CRs) due to the annihilation of DM pairs in the galactic halo, on the top of the standard astrophysical production. These…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2010-03-23 P. Salati , F. Donato , N. Fornengo

We argue that we may be able to sort out dark matter models in which electrons are generated through the annihilation and/or decay of dark matter, by using a fact that the initial energy spectrum is reflected in the cosmic-ray electron flux…

We show that the gamma ray spectrum observed with the HESS array of Cherenkov telescopes coming from the Galactic Center (GC) region and identified with the source HESS J1745-290, is well fitted by the secondary photons coming from dark…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-05-30 J. A. R. Cembranos , V. Gammaldi , A. L. Maroto