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We test the plausibility that a Majorana fermion dark matter candidate with a scalar mediator explains the gamma ray excess from the Galactic center. Assuming that the mediator couples to all third generation fermions we calculate…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-12-23 Csaba Balázs , Tong Li , Chris Savage , Martin White

Weakly interacting massive particles, as a major candidate of dark matter (DM), may directly annihilate or decay into high-energy photons, producing monochromatic spectral lines in the gamma-ray band. These spectral lines, if detected, are…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-01-15 Ji-Gui Cheng , Yun-Feng Liang , En-Wei Liang

Recent observations indicating the existence of a monochromatic gamma-ray line with energy ~130 GeV in the Fermi-LAT data have attracted great interest due to the possibility that the line feature stems from the annihilation of dark matter…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-08-28 Eric Carlson , Tim Linden , Stefano Profumo , Christoph Weniger

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

We argue that the decomposition of gamma-ray maps in spherical harmonics is a sensitive tool to study dark matter (DM) annihilation or decay in the main Galactic halo of the Milky Way. Using the spherical harmonic decomposition in a window…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2011-08-12 Dmitry Malyshev , Jo Bovy , Ilias Cholis

Recently, Daylan et al. (2014) show that the GeV gamma-ray excess signal from the central Milky Way can be explained by the annihilation of $\sim 40$ GeV dark matter through $b\bar{b}$ channel. Based on the morphology of the gamma-ray flux,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-10-12 Man Ho Chan

In this paper, we explore the possibility of a linearly polarized gamma-ray signal from dark matter annihilations in the Galactic center. Considering neutral weakly interacting massive particles, a polarized gamma-ray signal can be realized…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-07-04 Wei-Chih Huang , Kin-Wang Ng

We study the prospects for studying line features in gamma-ray spectra with upcoming gamma-ray experiments, such as HESS-II, the Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA), and the GAMMA-400 satellite. As an example we use the narrow feature at 130…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-05 Lars Bergström , Gianfranco Bertone , Jan Conrad , Christian Farnier , Christoph Weniger

The annihilation of neutralino dark matter in the Galactic Center (GC) may result in radio signals that can be used to detect or constrain the dark matter halo density profile or dark matter particle properties. At the Galactic Center, the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-05-12 Roberto Aloisio , Pasquale Blasi , Angela V. Olinto

Galaxy clusters are the largest virialised objects in the Universe, and as such, have a high dark matter (DM) concentration. This abundance of dark matter makes them promising targets for indirect DM searches. Here we report the details of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-02-03 Charles Thorpe-Morgan , Denys Malyshev , Christoph-Alexander Stegen , Andrea Santangelo , Josef Jochum

High energy electrons and positrons from decaying dark matter can produce a significant flux of gamma rays by inverse Compton off low energy photons in the interstellar radiation field. This possibility is inevitably related with the dark…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-11-20 Le Zhang , Christoph Weniger , Luca Maccione , Javier Redondo , Guenter Sigl

In this work we study the constraints on dark matter (DM) annihilation/decay from the Fermi-LAT Isotropic Gamma-Ray Background (IGRB) observation. We consider the contributions from both extragalactic and galactic DM components. For DM…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-04-26 Wei Liu , Xiao-Jun Bi , Su-Jie Lin , Peng-Fei Yin

The Galactic Center (GC) is potentially hosting the largest indirect signal from particle dark matter (DM), which in many well-motivated models would produce gamma rays as their final states. However, this region has often been dismissed…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-11-06 Silvia Manconi , Christopher Eckner , Francesca Calore , Fiorenza Donato

Several classes of astrophysical sources contribute to the approximately isotropic gamma-ray background measured by the Fermi Gamma-Ray Space Telescope. In this paper, we use Fermi's catalog of gamma-ray sources (along with corresponding…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-18 Ilias Cholis , Dan Hooper , Samuel D. McDermott

Fifteen years of the Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) data in the halo region of the Milky Way (MW) are analyzed to search for gamma rays from dark matter annihilation. Gamma-ray maps within the region of interest ($|l| \le 60^\circ$,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-11-25 Tomonori Totani

If dark matter particles are not perfectly stable, their decay products might be seen in the cosmic-ray fluxes. A natural candidate for decaying dark matter is the gravitino in R-parity violating scenarios. In the relevant GeV-TeV energy…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2011-10-31 Xiaoyuan Huang , Gilles Vertongen , Christoph Weniger

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

In the past decade, some telescopes (e.g. Fermi-LAT, AMS and DAMPE) were launched to detect the signals of annihilating dark matter in our Galaxy. Although some excess of gamma rays, anti-protons and electrons/positrons have been reported…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-09-18 Man Ho Chan , Chak Man Lee

At a distance of 50 kpc and with a dark matter mass of $\sim10^{10}$ M$_{\odot}$, the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) is a natural target for indirect dark matter searches. We use five years of data from the Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT)…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-27 Matthew R. Buckley , Eric Charles , Jennifer M. Gaskins , Alyson M. Brooks , Alex Drlica-Wagner , Pierrick Martin , Geng Zhao