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Recent advances in gamma-ray cosmic ray, infrared and radio astronomy have allowed us to develop a significantly better understanding of the galactic medium properties in the last few years. In this work using the DRAGON code, that…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-03-05 Maryam Tavakoli , Ilias Cholis , Carmelo Evoli , Piero Ullio

The thermal evolution of the intergalactic medium (IGM) can serve as a sensitive probe of cosmological heat sources and sinks. We employ it to limit interactions between dark matter and baryons. After reionization the IGM temperature is set…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-12-13 Julian B. Muñoz , Abraham Loeb

Measurements of the cosmic ray antiproton spectrum can be used to search for contributions from annihilating dark matter and to constrain the dark matter annihilation cross section. Depending on the assumptions made regarding cosmic ray…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-03-19 Dan Hooper , Tim Linden , Philipp Mertsch

We study the indirect detection of dark matter through neutrino flux from their annihilation in the center of the Sun, in a class of theories where the dark matter-nucleon spin-independent interactions break the isospin symmetry. We point…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-05-29 Shao-Long Chen , Yue Zhang

The indirect detection of dark matter particles with mass below the GeV scale has recently received significant attention. Future space-borne gamma-ray telescopes, including All-Sky-ASTROGAM, AMEGO, and GECCO, will probe the MeV gamma-ray…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-08-25 Adam Coogan , Logan Morrison , Stefano Profumo

An excess of $\sim$10-20 GeV cosmic-ray antiprotons has been identified in the spectrum reported by the AMS-02 Collaboration. The systematic uncertainties associated with this signal, however, have made it difficult to interpret these…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-20 Ilias Cholis , Tim Linden , Dan Hooper

Hints of direct dark matter detection coming from the DAMA, CoGeNT experiments point toward light dark matter with isospin-violating and possibly inelastic couplings. However an array of astrophysical constraints are rapidly closing the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-05-30 James M. Cline , Andrew R. Frey

Utilizing the Fermi measurement of the gamma-ray spectrum toward the Galactic Center, we derive some of the strongest constraints to date on the dark matter (DM) lifetime in the mass range from hundreds of MeV to above an EeV. Our…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-06-24 Timothy Cohen , Kohta Murase , Nicholas L. Rodd , Benjamin R. Safdi , Yotam Soreq

We investigate the impact of dark matter (DM) annihilation on the global 21-cm signal during the dark ages and cosmic dawn eras. The 21-cm line provides a complementary probe for studying the nature of dark matter beyond standard…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-03 Vivekanand Mohapatra

The $\gamma$-ray and neutrino emissions from dark matter (DM) annihilation in galaxy clusters are studied. After about one year operation of Fermi-LAT, several nearby clusters are reported with stringent upper limits of GeV $\gamma$-ray…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-03-13 Qiang Yuan , Peng-Fei Yin , Xiao-Jun Bi , Xin-Min Zhang , Shou-Hua Zhu

The scenario of isospin-violating dark matter (IVDM) with destructive interference between DM-proton and DM-neutron scatterings provides a potential possibility to reconcile the experimental results of DAMA, CoGeNT and XENON. We explore the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-02-24 Yu-Feng Zhou

Weakly Interacting Massive Particles (WIMPs) are a theoretical class of particles that are excellent dark matter candidates. WIMP annihilation or decay may produce essentially monochromatic gamma rays detectable by the Fermi Large Area…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-02-22 LAT Collaboration

We set the strongest limits to-date on the velocity-independent dark matter (DM) - proton cross section $\sigma$ for DM masses $m = 10\,\mathrm{keV}$ to $100\,\mathrm{GeV}$, using large-scale structure traced by the Lyman-alpha forest:…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-04-28 Keir K. Rogers , Cora Dvorkin , Hiranya V. Peiris

It has been proposed that during the formation of the first generation stars there might be a "dark star" phase in which the power of the star comes from dark matter annihilation. The adiabatic contraction process to form the dark star…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-04-20 Qiang Yuan , Bin Yue , Bing Zhang , Xuelei Chen

The mass to luminosity ratio of the dwarf satellite galaxies in the Milky Way suggests that these dwarf galaxies may contain substantial dark matter. The dark matter at the dense region such as within or at the vicinity of the centres of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-01-13 Ashadul Halder , Shibaji Banerjee , Madhurima Pandey , Debasish Majumdar

We construct explicit models of particle dark matter where the attractive force in the dark matter sector creates a narrow near-threshold resonance that qualitatively changes the energy dependence of the annihilation cross section. In these…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-05 Haipeng An , Maxim Pospelov

In this work, we simulate a set of realizations of local volume dark matter subhalo population based on the distributions and relations derived from Via Lactea II N-body simulation. We calculate the J-factors of these subhalos, and find…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-04-26 Yun-Feng Liang , Zi-Qing Xia , Kai-Kai Duan , Zhao-Qiang Shen , Xiang Li , Yi-Zhong Fan

The Fermi-LAT collaboration has studied the gamma-ray emission from a stacked population of dwarf spheroidal galaxies and used this information to set constraints on the dark matter annihilation cross section. Interestingly, their analysis…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-03-11 Eric Carlson , Dan Hooper , Tim Linden

The region of low neutralino masses as low as (5-10) GeV has attracted attention recently due to the possibility of excess events above background in dark matter detectors. An analysis of spin independent neutralino-proton cross sections…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-11-20 Daniel Feldman , Zuowei Liu , Pran Nath

We analyze 11 years of Fermi-LAT data corresponding to the sky regions of 7 dwarf irregular (dIrr) galaxies. DIrrs are dark matter (DM) dominated systems, proposed as interesting targets for the indirect search of DM with gamma rays. The…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-11-28 V. Gammaldi , J. Pérez-Romero , J. Coronado-Blázquez , M. Di Mauro , E. V. Karukes , M. A. Sánchez-Conde , P. Salucci