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We consider a simplified model of fermionic dark matter which couples exclusively to the right-handed top quark via a renormalizable interaction with a color-charged scalar. We first compute the relic abundance of this type of dark matter…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-19 M. A. Gomez , C. B. Jackson , G. Shaughnessy

Recently, the Fermi-LAT collaboration reported upper limits on the GeV gamma-ray flux from nearby clusters of galaxies. Motivated by these limits, we study corresponding constraints on gamma-ray emissions from two specific decaying dark…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-03-28 Jiwei Ke , Mingxing Luo , Liucheng Wang , Guohuai Zhu

We consider constraints on $p$-wave dark matter in a dark matter spike surrounding the supermassive black hole at the center of M87. Owing to the large mass of the black hole, and resulting large velocity dispersion for the dark matter…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-11-29 Katharena Christy , Jason Kumar , Pearl Sandick

Utilizing data from the ELVIS and Via Lactea-II simulations, we characterize the local dark matter subhalo population, and use this information to refine the predictions for the gamma-ray fluxes arising from annihilating dark matter in this…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-04-19 Dan Hooper , Samuel J. Witte

Galaxy clusters are promising targets for indirect detection of dark matter thanks to the large dark matter content. Using 14 years of Fermi-LAT data from seven nearby galaxy clusters, we obtain constraints on the lifetime of decaying very…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-05-17 Deheng Song , Kohta Murase , Ali Kheirandish

The extra-dimensional origin of dark matter is a fascinating and nowadays often discussed possibility. Here, we present the gamma-ray signatures that are expected from the self-annihilation of Kaluza-Klein dark matter particles. For…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Lars Bergstrom , Torsten Bringmann , Martin Eriksson , Michael Gustafsson

Within a multicomponent dark matter scenario, novel gamma-ray signals may arise from the decay of the heavier dark matter component into the lighter. For a scalar dark sector of this kind, the decay $\phi_2\rightarrow\phi_1 \gamma$ is…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-01-06 Avirup Ghosh , Alejandro Ibarra , Tanmoy Mondal , Biswarup Mukhopadhyaya

In this paper we examine whether indirect detection constraints on dark matter associated with a non-thermal history may be significantly improved when accounting for the presence of galactic substructure in the form of dark matter spikes.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-07-14 Pearl Sandick , Scott Watson

Previous searches for the $\gamma$-ray signatures of annihilating galactic dark matter used predefined spatial templates to describe the background of $\gamma$-ray emission from astrophysical processes like cosmic ray interactions. In this…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-04-25 Xiaoyuan Huang , Torsten Enßlin , Marco Selig

A number of theories, spanning a wide range of mass scales, predict dark matter candidates that have lifetimes much longer than the age of the universe, yet may produce a significant flux of gamma rays in their decays today. We constrain…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Hasan Yuksel , Matthew D. Kistler

Dark matter annihilation in Galactic substructure produces diffuse gamma-ray emission of remarkably constant intensity across the sky, and in general this signal dominates over the smooth halo signal at angles greater than a few tens of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2009-07-02 Jennifer M. Siegal-Gaskins

In this paper, we study gamma ray spectra for various scenarios of dark matter annihilation and decay. We focus on processes which generate only high-energy photons or leptons and photons, but no proton-antiproton pairs, to be compatible…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-08-18 Jean-François Fortin , Jessie Shelton , Scott Thomas , Yue Zhao

If the dark matter in the Universe is made of weakly self-interacting particles, they may self-annihilate and emit gamma-rays. We use high resolution numerical simulations to estimate directly the annihilation flux from the central regions…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-09-25 Felix Stoehr , Simon D. M. White , Volker Springel , Giuseppe Tormen , Naoki Yoshida

We calculate the pair-annihilation cross section of real scalar singlet dark matter into two mono-energetic photons. We derive constraints on the theory parameter space from the Fermi limits on gamma-ray lines, and we compare with current…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-12-24 Stefano Profumo , Lorenzo Ubaldi , Carroll Wainwright

Inspired by the excess of gamma rays from the Galactic Center, we confront a number of simplified dark matter models with experimental data. Assuming a single dark matter particle coupled to standard matter via a spin-0 mediator, we compare…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-10-01 Csaba Balázs , Tong Li

We consider an extension of the Standard Model by a singlet scalar that accounts for the dark matter of the Universe. Within this model we compute the expected gamma ray flux from the annihilation of dark matter particles in a consistent…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-03-27 Carlos E. Yaguna

It has been long discussed that cosmic rays may contain signals of dark matter. In the last couple of years an anomaly of cosmic-ray positrons has drawn a lot of attentions, and recently an excess in cosmic-ray anti-proton has been reported…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-06-29 Shin'ichiro Ando , Koji Ishiwata

Recently, a preliminary spectrum from the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope has been presented for the inner galaxy (-30 < l < 30, -5 < b < 5), as well as the galactic center (-1 < l < 1, -1< b < 1). We consider the implications of these data…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2009-07-29 Ilias Cholis , Gregory Dobler , Douglas P. Finkbeiner , Lisa Goodenough , Tracy R. Slatyer , Neal Weiner

The Large Area Telescope (LAT) aboard the Fermi satellite allows us to study the high-energy gamma-ray sky with unprecedented sensitivity. However, the origin of 31% of the detected gamma-ray sources remains unknown. This population of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-27 Hannes-S. Zechlin , Dieter Horns

The isotropic gamma-ray background (IGRB), measured by the Fermi Large Area Telescope, is the result of several classes of extragalactic astrophysical sources. Those sources include blazars, start-forming galaxies and radio galaxies. Also,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-08-22 Ilias Cholis , Iason Krommydas