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Dark matter has been recognized as an essential part of matter for over 70 years now, and many suggestions have been made, what it could be. Most of these ideas have centered on Cold Dark Matter, particles that are predicted in extensions…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-11-15 Peter L. Biermann , Faustin Munyaneza

We show that dark matter emerging from late decays (z < 1000) produces a linear power spectrum identical to that of Cold Dark Matter (CDM) on all observationally relavant scales (> 0.1 Mpc), and simultaneously generates observable…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Louis E. Strigari , Manoj Kaplinghat , James S. Bullock

In models with extra dimensions, a black hole evaporates both in the bulk and on the visible brane, where standard model fields live. The exact emissivities of each particle species are needed to determine how the black hole decay proceeds.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-11 Vitor Cardoso , Marco Cavaglia , Leonardo Gualtieri

We present the energy spectra of the fluxes of positrons, anti-protons and photons generated by Dark Matter annihilations in our galaxy, as univocally predicted by the model of Minimal Dark Matter. Due to multi-TeV masses and to the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 Marco Cirelli , Roberto Franceschini , Alessandro Strumia

We consider dark matter consisting of long--living particles with masses $10^{7}~\lesssim~M~\lesssim~10^{16}$ GeV decaying through hadronic channel as a source of high energy neutrino. Using recent data on high energy neutrino from IceCube…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-05-08 M. Yu. Kuznetsov

Dark Matter (DM) annihilation in our Galaxy may produce a linearly polarized synchrotron signal. We use, for the first time, synchrotron polarization to constrain the DM annihilation cross section by comparing theoretical predictions with…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-09-13 Silvia Manconi , Alessandro Cuoco , Julien Lesgourgues

Considering that the ultrahigh energy (UHE) upgoing muon neutrino events around the PeV energy region observed by the IceCube are due to the decay of super heavy dark matter to neutrinos, we constrain the mass of the decaying dark matter…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-10-02 Madhurima Pandey , Debasish Majumdar , Ashadul Halder , Shibaji Banerjee

Recent proposals have suggested that a previously unknown decay mode of the neutron into a dark matter particle could solve the long lasting measurement problem of the neutron decay width. We show that, if the dark particle in neutron decay…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2018-11-09 T. F. Motta , P. A. M. Guichon , A. W. Thomas

We derive the strongest constraint on the fraction of dark matter that can be composed of low mass primordial black holes by using the observation of the Galactic Center 511 keV gamma-ray line. Primordial black holes of masses $\lesssim$…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-12-18 Ranjan Laha

We study gamma ray and positron in high energy cosmic ray from the decay of the gravitino dark matter in the framework of supersymmetric model with R-parity violation. Even though R-parity is violated, the lifetime of the gravitino, which…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-02-20 Koji Ishiwata , Shigeki Matsumoto , Takeo Moroi

In this letter, we consider a class of scenarios in which the dark matter is part of a heavy hidden sector that is thermally decoupled from the Standard Model in the early universe. The dark matter freezes-out by annihilating to a lighter,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-07-06 Asher Berlin , Dan Hooper , Gordan Krnjaic

Gravitino dark matter, together with thermal leptogenesis, implies an upper bound on the masses of superparticles. In the case of broken R-parity the constraints from primordial nucleosynthesis are naturally satisfied and decaying…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-05-14 Wilfried Buchmuller

The galactic 511 keV gamma-ray line has been observed since 1970's, and was identified as the result of electron-positron annihilation, but the origin of such positrons is still not clear. Apart from the astrophysical explanations, the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-03-19 Rong-Gen Cai , Yu-Chen Ding , Xing-Yu Yang , Yu-Feng Zhou

We investigate the invisible decay of positronium to probe the fermionic light dark matter mediated by the dark $Z$ boson. Too tiny is the invisible decay rate of positronium through weak interaction in the standard model to be detected in…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-06-01 Dong-Won Jung , Chaehyun Yu , Kang Young Lee

Dark matter particles annihilating in the Galactic halo can provide a flux of positrons potentially observable in upcoming experiments, such as PAMELA and AMS-02. We discuss the spectral features which may be associated with dark matter…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-10 Dan Hooper , Joseph Silk

If cold dark matter is present at the galactic center, as in current models of the dark halo, it is accreted by the central black hole into a dense spike. Particle dark matter then annihilates strongly inside the spike, making it a compact…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Paolo Gondolo , Joseph Silk

If massive sterile neutrinos exist, their decays into photons and/or electron-positron pairs may give rise to observable consequences. We consider the possibility that MeV sterile neutrino decays lead to the diffuse positron annihilation…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-03 M. H. Chan , M. -C. Chu

High energy neutrinos are produced by the annihilation of dark matter particles in our galaxy. These are presently searched for with large area, deep underground neutrino telescopes. Cold dark matter particles, trapped inside the sun, are…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-09-25 F. Halzen , J. E. Jacobsen

We calculate the flux of cosmic positrons from the dark matter annihilation in the littlest Higgs model with T-parity. The dark matter annihilates mainly into weak gauge bosons in the halo, and high energy positrons are produced through…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 Masaki Asano , Shigeki Matsumoto , Nobuchika Okada , Yasuhiro Okada

Primordial black holes are a viable dark matter candidate. They decay via Hawking evaporation. Energetic particles from the Hawking radiation interact with interstellar gas, depositing their energy as heat and ionization. For a sufficiently…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-05-12 Hyungjin Kim