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Gamma-ray binaries are stellar systems containing a neutron star or black hole with gamma-ray emission produced by an interaction between the components. These systems are rare, even though binary evolution models predict dozens in our…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2012-02-16 The Fermi LAT Collaboration , M. J. Coe , F. Di Mille , P. G. Edwards , M. D. Filipović , J. L. Payne , J. Stevens , M. A. P. Torres

We consider three classes of dark matter (DM) models to account for the recently observed 3.5 keV line: metastable excited state DM, annihilating DM, and decaying DM. We study two examples of metastable excited state DM. The first,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-19 Mads Frandsen , Francesco Sannino , Ian M. Shoemaker , Ole Svendsen

Astrophysical searches for gamma rays are one of the main strategies to probe the annihilation or decay of dark matter particles. We present a new class of distinct sub-GeV spectral features that generically appear in kinematical situations…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-02-20 Torsten Bringmann , Ahmad Galea , Andrzej Hryczuk , Christoph Weniger

In this article, we review the prospects for the Fermi satellite (formerly known as GLAST) to detect gamma rays from dark matter annihilations in the Central Region of the Milky Way, in particular on the light of the recent astrophysical…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-03-13 Pasquale Dario Serpico , Dan Hooper

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

Decaying or annihilating dark matter particles could be detected through gamma-ray emission from the species they decay or annihilate into. This is usually done by modelling the flux from specific dark matter-rich objects such as the Milky…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-12-01 Deaglan J. Bartlett , Andrija Kostić , Harry Desmond , Jens Jasche , Guilhem Lavaux

We present a new reconstruction of the distribution of atomic hydrogen in the inner Galaxy that is based on explicit radiation-transport modelling of line and continuum emission and a gas-flow model in the barred Galaxy that provides…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-05-11 Martin Pohl , Oscar Macias , Phaedra Coleman , Chris Gordon

We infer dark matter properties from gamma ray residuals extracted using eight different interstellar emission scenarios proposed by the Fermi-LAT Collaboration to explain the Galactic Center gamma ray excess. Adopting the most plausible…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-03-08 Csaba Balázs , Tong Li

Using gamma-ray data from observations of the Milky Way, Andromeda (M31), and the cosmic background, we calculate conservative upper limits on the dark matter self-annihilation cross section to a number of final states, over a wide range of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-11-20 T. D. Jacques

The presence of an excess gamma-ray signal toward the Galactic center (GC) has now been well established, and is known as the GC excess. Leading explanations for the signal include mis-modeling of the Galactic diffuse emission along the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-03-24 Anne-Katherine Burns , Max Fieg , Christopher M. Karwin , Arvind Rajaraman

A recently proposed scale invariant extension of the standard model is modified such that it includes a Dark Matter candidate which can annihilate into gamma-rays. For that a non-zero $U(1)_Y$ hypercharge $Q$ is assigned to the fermions in…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-19 Jisuke Kubo , Kher Sham Lim , Manfred Lindner

Photons produced in the annihilations of dark matter particles can be detected by gamma-ray telescopes; this technique of indirect detection serves as a cornerstone of the upcoming assault on the dark matter paradigm. The main obstacle to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-07-08 Eric J. Baxter , Scott Dodelson

The Galactic center $\gamma$-ray excess, detected by the Fermi-LAT, is a very attractive tentative signal from dark matter annihilation. Searching for associated synchrotron emissions can test the dark matter interpretation for this excess.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-05-18 Wen-Qing Guo , Yichao Li , Xiaoyuan Huang , Yin-Zhe Ma , Geoff Beck , Yogesh Chandola , Feng Huang

A full one-loop calculation of neutralino S-wave annihilation into the $Z\gamma$ final state is performed in the minimal supersymmetric extension of the Standard Model. This process, like the similar one with two photons in the final state,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-11-30 P. Ullio , L. Bergstrom

We investigate the possibility of observing monochromatic neutrino lines originating from annihilation of dark matter. We analyse several astrophysical sources with overdensities of dark matter that can amplify the signal. As a case study,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-10-28 Chiara Arina , Suchita Kulkarni , Joseph Silk

Cross-correlating gamma-ray maps with locations of galaxies in the low-redshift Universe vastly increases sensitivity to signatures of annihilation of dark matter particles. Low-redshift galaxies are ideal targets, as the largest…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-07-14 Shin'ichiro Ando , Aurélien Benoit-Lévy , Eiichiro Komatsu

The measurement of gamma rays at MeV energies from cosmic radioactivities is one of the key tools for nuclear astrophysics, in its study of nuclear reactions and how they shape objects such as massive stars and supernova explosions.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-03-29 Roland Diehl

We present a search for gamma-ray emission from the direction of the newly discovered dwarf galaxy Reticulum II. Using Fermi-LAT data, we detect a signal that exceeds expected backgrounds between ~2-10 GeV and is consistent with…

The installation of forward detectors in CMS and ATLAS turn the LHC to an effective photon-photon collider. The elastic scattering of the beam-protons via the emission of photons, which can be identified by tagging the intact protons in the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-08-02 Arman Esmaili , Sara Khatibi , Mojtaba Mohammadi Najafabadi

In Ref.~\cite{Guo:2021rre}, we proposed to replace the final dark matter (DM) particle in the semi-annihilation mode $\rm DM+DM\to antiDM+Higgs~boson$ with its $Z_{N\geq 3}$ companion, thus reducing DM number density without DM-nucleon…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-05-24 Jun Guo , Zhaofeng Kang , Ji-Gang Zhao