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Several explanations for the existence of Ultra High Energy Cosmic Rays invoke the idea that they originate from the decay of massive particles created in the reheating following inflation. It has been suggested that the decay products can…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Gustavo Medina Tanco , Alan A. Watson

The excess in the positron fraction reported by the PAMELA collaboration has been interpreted as due to annihilation or decay of dark matter in the Galaxy. More prosaically, it has been ascribed to direct production of positrons by nearby…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2009-09-02 Philipp Mertsch , Subir Sarkar

The DArk Matter Particle Explorer (DAMPE) recently reported an excess of electrons/positrons above expected background fluxes even when a double power-law background spectrum is assumed. Several dark matter models that involve TeV-scale…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-05-03 Geoff Beck , Sergio Colafrancesco

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

The excess radio background seen at $\simeq 0.1-10\,{\rm GHz}$ has stimulated much scientific debate in the past years. Recently, it was pointed out that the soft photon emission from accreting primordial black holes may be able to explain…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-11-07 Sandeep Kumar Acharya , Jiten Dhandha , Jens Chluba

Recent results from the PAMELA, ATIC, PPB BETS and Fermi collaborations extend the energy range in the electron flux measurement up to unexplored energies in the hundred GeVs range confirming the bump starting at about 10GeV already…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-11-18 Ignacio Cernuda

Synchrotron emission from electron cosmic ray populations can be used to study both cosmic rays physics and WIMP dark matter imprints on radio skymaps. We used available radio data - from MHz to GHz - to analyze the contribution from…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-09-19 Roberto A. Lineros

Radio observations of the Ursa Major II dwarf spheroidal galaxy obtained using the Green Bank Telescope are used to place bounds on WIMP dark matter properties. Dark matter annihilation releases energy in the form of charged particles which…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-11-13 Aravind Natarajan , Jeffrey B. Peterson , Tabitha C. Voytek , Kristine Spekkens , Brian Mason , James Aguirre , Beth Willman

If the radio background is coming from cosmological sources, there should be some amount of clustering due to the large scale structure in the universe. Simple models for the expected clustering combined with the recent measurement by…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-01-24 Gilbert Holder

We use absolutely calibrated data between 3 and 90 GHz from the 2006 balloon flight of the ARCADE 2 instrument, along with previous measurements at other frequencies, to constrain models of extragalactic emission. Such emission is a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2009-01-21 M. Seiffert , D. J. Fixsen , A. Kogut , S. M. Levin , M. Limon , P. M. Lubin , P. Mirel , J. Singal , T. Villela , E. Wollack , C. A. Wuensche

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

Recent studies using New Horizons LORRI images have returned the most precise measurement of the cosmic optical background to date, yielding a flux that exceeds that expected from deep galaxy counts by roughly a factor of two. We…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-12-06 José Luis Bernal , Gabriela Sato-Polito , Marc Kamionkowski

The EGRET excess of diffuse Galactic gamma rays shows all the features expected from dark matter annihilation (DMA): a spectral shape given by the fragmentation of mono-energetic quarks, which is the same in all sky directions and an…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-01-09 Iris Gebauer

The first measurement of the diffuse background spectrum at 0.8-1.7 $\mu \rm{m}$ from the CIBER experiment has revealed a significant excess of the cosmic infrared background (CIB) radiation compared to the theoretically expected spectrum.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-01-04 Oleg E. Kalashev , Alexander Kusenko , Edoardo Vitagliano

The excess of electrons/positrons observed by the Pamela and ATIC experiments gives rise to a noticeable amount of synchrotron and Inverse Compton Scattering (ICS) radiation when the e^+e^- interact with the Galactic Magnetic Field, and the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2011-02-11 E. Borriello , A. Cuoco , G. Miele

In the last few years ARCADE 2, combined with older experiments, has detected an additional radio background, measured as a temperature and ranging in frequency from 22 MHz to 10 GHz, not accounted for by known radio sources and the cosmic…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-10-28 John Kehayias , Thomas W. Kephart , Thomas J. Weiler

We propose a novel mechanism to explain the positron excesses, which are observed by satellite-based telescopes including PAMELA and AMS-02, in dark matter (DM) scenarios. The novelty behind the proposal is that it makes direct use of DM…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-05-09 Doojin Kim , Jong-Chul Park , Seodong Shin

Despite an intense theoretical and experimental effort over the past decade, observations of the extragalactic radio background at multiple frequencies below 10 GHz are not understood in terms of known radio sources, and may represent a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-08-02 Andrea Caputo , Hongwan Liu , Siddharth Mishra-Sharma , Maxim Pospelov , Joshua T. Ruderman

Several explanations for the existence of Ultra High Energy Cosmic Rays (UHECR) invoke the idea that they originate from the decay of massive particles created in the reheating following inflation. It has been suggested that the decay…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Gustavo Medina Tanco , Alan A. Watson

We estimate the contribution of extragalactic radio sources to fluctuations in sky temperature over the range of frequencies (10-300 GHz) used for Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) anisotropy measurements. CMB anisotropy observations at…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Aaron Sokasian , Eric Gawiser , George F. Smoot