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Excesses of Galactic gamma rays in the 1-100 GeV region observed by EGRET and by WMAP have been interpreted as signals of dark matter (LSP) annihilation. We argue that the excess of TeV gamma rays from the Galactic center observed by…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Matts Roos

The diffuse Galactic gamma-ray data from the region of the Galactic Center has been collected by the LAT instrument on the Fermi Gamma-Ray Space Telescope. In this paper we argue that it may be able to provide an unambiguous evidence of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2009-09-09 Leszek Roszkowski , Yue-Lin Sming Tsai

We study the spectra of gamma ray signals that arise from dark matter annihilation in the universe. We focus on the large class of theories where the photon spectrum includes both continuum spectrum of gamma rays that arise from…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-03-19 Kevork N. Abazajian , Prateek Agrawal , Zackaria Chacko , Can Kilic

Detection of gamma rays from dark matter annihilation in the galactic center is one of the feasible techniques to search for dark matter. We evaluate the gamma ray flux in the case that the dark matter has an electroweak SU(2)_L charge.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-10 Junji Hisano , Shigeki. Matsumoto , Mihoko M. Nojiri , Osamu Saito

The observation of a sharp spectral feature in the gamma-ray sky would be one of the cleanest ways to identify dark matter and pinpoint its properties. Over the years a lot of attention has been paid to two specific features, namely…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2012-07-25 Alejandro Ibarra , Sergio López Gehler , Miguel Pato

Dark matter decay or annihilation may produce monochromatic signals in the gamma-ray energy range. In this work we argue that there are strong theoretical motivations for studying these signals in the framework of gravitino dark matter…

We study the line gamma ray signature from the Galactic Center originating from Bino-like dark matter pair annihilation, when CP is not conserved. We consider the case that the Bino is nearly degenerate with a sfermion in mass. Although an…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 Shigeki Matsumoto , Joe Sato , Yoshio Sato

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

Existence of new gauge U(1) symmetry possessed by dark matter (DM) particles implies the existence of a new Coulomb-like interaction, which leads to Sommerfeld-Gamow-Sakharov enhancement of dark matter annihilation at low relative…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-10-01 K. Belotsky , M. Khlopov , A. Kirillov

Dark matter particles from the Galactic halo can be gravitationally trapped in the solar core or in external orbits. The enhanced density of dark matter particles either in the solar core or in external orbits can result in the annihilation…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-07-15 M. N. Mazziotta , F. Loparco , D. Serini , A. Cuoco , P. De La Torre Luque , F. Gargano , M. Gustafsson

Galaxy clusters are dominated by dark matter, and may have a larger proportion of surviving substructure than, e.g, field galaxies. Due to the presence of galaxy clusters in relative proximity and their high dark matter content, they are…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-07-01 Douglas Quincy Adams , Lars Bergstrom , Douglas Spolyar

The presence of dark matter is nowadays widely supported by a large body of astronomical and cosmological observations. A large amount of dark matter is expected to be present in the central region of the Milky Way. Very-high-energy (>100…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-14 Lucia Rinchiuso , Emmanuel Moulin , Aion Viana , Christopher Van Eldik , Johannes Veh

We study the capabilities of the Fermi-LAT instrument on board of the Fermi mission to constrain particle dark matter properties, as annihilation cross section, mass and branching ratio into dominant annihilation channels, with gamma-ray…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-02-22 Nicolas Bernal , Sergio Palomares-Ruiz

We study the prospects for detecting gamma-rays from Dark Matter (DM) annihilations in enhancements of the DM density (mini-spikes) around intermediate-mass black holes with masses in the range $10^2 \lsim M / \msun \lsim 10^6$. Focusing on…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Gianfranco Bertone , Andrew R. Zentner , Joseph Silk

Over the past few years, there has been a hint of the $\gamma$-ray excess observed by the Fermi-LAT satellite borne telescope from the regions surrounding the Galactic Centre at an energy range $\sim 1$-$3$ GeV. The nature of this excess…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-03-21 Anirban Biswas

The recent results from the PAMELA, ATIC, FERMI and HESS experiments have focused attention on the possible existence of high energy cosmic ray e^+ e^- that may originate from dark matter (DM) annihilations or decays in the Milky Way. Here…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2011-01-19 Celine Boehm , Timur Delahaye , Joseph Silk

The spectrum and morphology of gamma-rays from the Galactic Center and the spectrum of synchrotron emission observed from the Milky Way's radio filaments have each been interpreted as possible signals of $\sim$7-10 GeV dark matter particles…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-05-30 Dan Hooper , Wei Xue

Dark Higgs is very generic in dark matter models where DM is stabilized by some spontaneously broken dark gauge symmetries. Motivated by the FERMI observation of $\sim$GeV scale $\gamma$-ray excess from the galactic center (GC), we…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-02-08 P. Ko , Yong Tang

Dark matter searches in gamma ray final states often make use of the fact that photons can be produced from final state muons. Modern Monte Carlo generators and DM codes include the effects of final state radiation from muons produced in…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-06-22 Andre Scaffidi , Katherine Freese , Jinmian Li , Christopher Savage , Martin White , Anthony G. Williams

One of the goals of NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope (formerly GLAST) will be detection of gamma rays from dark-matter annihilation in the Galactic halo. Theoretical arguments suggest that dark matter may be bound into subhalos with…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Shin'ichiro Ando , Marc Kamionkowski , Samuel K. Lee , Savvas M. Koushiappas