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The data collected by ATIC, PPB-BETS, FERMI-LAT and HESS all indicate that there is an electron/positron excess in the cosmic ray energy spectrum above $\sim$ 100 GeV, although different instrumental teams do not agree on the detailed…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-01-18 Yi-Zhong Fan , Bing Zhang , Jin Chang

High energy electrons and positrons from decaying dark matter can produce a significant flux of gamma rays by inverse Compton off low energy photons in the interstellar radiation field. This possibility is inevitably related with the dark…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-11-20 Le Zhang , Christoph Weniger , Luca Maccione , Javier Redondo , Guenter Sigl

Motivated by the recent results from the PAMELA and ATIC, we study the cosmic-ray electron and positron produced by the decay of gravitino dark matter. We calculate the cosmic-ray electron and positron fluxes and discuss implications to the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-11-15 Koji Ishiwata , Shigeki Matsumoto , Takeo Moroi

Motivated by the PAMELA anomaly in the fluxes of cosmic-ray positron and electron, we study the cosmic gamma-ray induced by the inverse Compton (IC) scattering process in unstable dark matter scenario assuming that the anomaly is due to the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-05-14 Koji Ishiwata , Shigeki Matsumoto , Takeo Moroi

In this work, we revisit the all-sky Galactic diffuse $\gamma$-ray emission taking into account the new measurements of cosmic ray electron/positron spectrum by PAMELA, ATIC and Fermi, which show excesses of cosmic electrons/positrons…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-11-20 Juan Zhang , Qiang Yuan , Xiao-Jun Bi

Recent measurements of the positron/electron ratio in the cosmic ray (CR) flux exhibits an apparent anomaly, whereby this ratio increases between 10 and 100 GeV. In contrast, this ratio should decrease according to the standard scenario, in…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2009-05-08 Tsvi Piran , Nir J. Shaviv , Ehud Nakar

The antiproton flux measured by PAMELA experiment might have originated from Galactic sources of cosmic rays. These antiprotons are expected to be produced in the interactions of cosmic ray protons and nuclei with cold protons. Gamma rays…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-30 Jagdish C. Joshi , Nayantara Gupta

The space-borne antimatter experiment PAMELA has recently reported a surprising rise in the positron to electron ratio at high energies. It has also recently been found that electromagnetic radiative corrections in some cases may boost the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-04-06 Lars Bergstrom , Torsten Bringmann , Joakim Edsjo

Several cosmic ray experiments have measured excesses in electrons and positrons, relative to standard backgrounds, for energies from ~ 10 GeV - 1 TeV. These excesses could be due to new astrophysical sources, but an explanation in which…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-11-20 Spencer Chang , Lisa Goodenough

Motivated by the PAMELA anomaly in the fluxes of cosmic-ray electron and positron, we study the cosmic gamma-ray induced by the inverse Compton (IC) scattering process in unstable dark matter scenario assuming that the anomaly is due to the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-19 Koji Ishiwata , Shigeki Matsumoto , Takeo Moroi

We combine the data from PAMELA and FERMI-LAT cosmic ray experiments by introducing a simple sum rule. This allows to investigate whether the lepton excess observed by these experiments is charge symmetric or not. We also show how the data…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-05-28 Isabella Masina

In this paper, we study the flux of electrons and positrons injected by pulsars and by annihilating or decaying dark matter in the context of recent ATIC, PAMELA, Fermi, and HESS data. We review the flux from a single pulsar and derive the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2009-09-17 Dmitry Malyshev , Ilias Cholis , Joseph Gelfand

The cosmic-ray excess observed by PAMELA in the positron fraction and by FERMI and HESS in the electron + positron flux can be interpreted in terms of DM annihilations or decays into leptonic final states. Final states into tau's or 4mu…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-02-24 Patrick Meade , Michele Papucci , Alessandro Strumia , Tomer Volansky

The recent observations of the positron fraction in cosmic rays by PAMELA indicate that the fraction of positrons to the total electronic component in cosmic rays initially decreases in the energy region 1-10 GeV and increases thereafter.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-11 R. Cowsik , B. Burch

By combining the recent data from AMS-02 with those from Fermi-LAT, we show the emergence of a charge asymmetry in the electron and positron cosmic-ray excesses, slightly favoring the electron component. Astrophysical and dark matter…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-07-03 Isabella Masina , Francesco Sannino

The PAMELA and Fermi measurements of the cosmic-ray electron and positron spectra have generated much interest over the past two years, because they are consistent with a significant component of the electron and positron fluxes between 20…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-08-05 Spencer Chang , Lisa Goodenough

We revisit the model proposed earlier to account for the observed increase in the positron fraction in cosmic rays with increasing energy, in the light of new data from the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS-02) experiment. The model accounts…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-11-29 Philipp Mertsch , Subir Sarkar

It is commonly assumed that dark matter may be composed of one or at most a few elementary particles. PAMELA data present a window of opportunity into a possible relationship between luminous and dark matter. Along with ATIC data the two…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-11-18 Paul H. Frampton , Pham Q. Hung

We present Minimal Dark Matter and its univocal predictions for Dark Matter observables. During the idm2008 conference, PAMELA presented preliminary results showing an excess in the positron fraction: we find a good agreement, with a modest…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-10-30 Marco Cirelli , Alessandro Strumia

The cosmological consequences of $f(R)$ gravity are reviewed in the framework of recent data obtained by PAMELA (Payload for Antimatter Matter Exploration and Light-nuclei Astrophysics) experiment. This collaboration has reported an excess…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-07-20 S. Capozziello , M. De Laurentis , G. Lambiase