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We make a detailed analysis of the indirect diffuse gamma-ray signals from dark matter annihilation in the Galaxy. We include the prompt emission, as well as the emission from inverse Compton scattering whenever the annihilation products…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2012-11-14 Steve Blanchet , Julien Lavalle

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

Indirect searches for dark matter through Standard Model products of its annihilation generally assume a cross-section which is dominated by a term independent of velocity ($s$-wave annihilation). However, in many DM models an $s$-wave…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-05-29 Christian Johnson , Regina Caputo , Chris Karwin , Simona Murgia , Steve Ritz , Jessie Shelton

There is a possible \gamma-ray signal at 130 GeV coming from the Galactic Center as seen by Fermi-LAT experiment. We give a SUSY dark matter model to explain this \gamma-ray feature in NMSSM. We show that in NMSSM, one can have a benchmark…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-06-18 Gaurav Tomar , Subhendra Mohanty , Soumya Rao

A gamma-ray line observation would be a strong hint towards the detection of dark matter. The possibility that a decay of the dark matter particle is responsible for the emission of a line is investigated, for both a neutral and a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-05-16 Tiziana Scarna

An attempt to predict the new atomic dark matter lines is done on the example of a dark lepton atom - positronium. Its Layman-alpha line with the energy near 3 GeV may be observable if the appropriate conditions realize. For this we have…

General Physics · Physics 2017-05-01 V. Burdyuzha , V. Charugin

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

The Lightest Supersymmetric Particle predicted in most of the supersymmetric scenarios is an ideal candidate for the dark matter of cosmology. Their detection is of extreme significance today. Recently there have been intriguing signals of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Afsar Abbas

Dark matter annihilations have been fiercely restricted by the non-observation of excess events in indirect detection probes. Typically the interactions that dictate annihilation are also present in the dark matter-nucleon scattering cross…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-05-08 Farinaldo S. Queiroz , Clarissa Siqueira

Several groups have identified an extended excess of gamma rays over the modeled foreground and background emissions towards the Galactic center (GC) based on observations with the Fermi Large Area Telescope. This excess emission is…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-04-28 Francesca Calore , Ilias Cholis , Christopher McCabe , Christoph Weniger

Past studies have identified a spatially extended excess of $\sim$1-3 GeV gamma rays from the region surrounding the Galactic Center, consistent with the emission expected from annihilating dark matter. We revisit and scrutinize this signal…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-02-24 Tansu Daylan , Douglas P. Finkbeiner , Dan Hooper , Tim Linden , Stephen K. N. Portillo , Nicholas L. Rodd , Tracy R. Slatyer

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

We show that the thermal relic abundance of dark matter can be affected by a new type of reaction: semi-annihilation. Semi-annihilation takes the schematic form X_i X_j -> X_k phi, where X_i are stable dark matter particles and phi is an…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-03-13 Francesco D'Eramo , Jesse Thaler

We introduce a new type of gamma-ray spectral feature, which we denominate gamma-ray triangle. This spectral feature arises in scenarios where dark matter self-annihilates via a chiral interaction into two Dirac fermions, which subsequently…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-11-15 Alejandro Ibarra , Sergio Lopez-Gehler , Emiliano Molinaro , Miguel Pato

We analyze the first two years of data from the Fermi Gamma Ray Space Telescope from the direction of the inner 10 degrees around the Galactic Center with the intention of constraining, or finding evidence of, annihilating dark matter. We…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-03-17 Dan Hooper , Lisa Goodenough

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

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

Most proposed dark matter candidates are stable and are produced thermally in the early Universe. However, there is also the possibility of unstable (but long-lived) dark matter, produced thermally or otherwise. We propose a strategy to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-13 Sergio Palomares-Ruiz , Jennifer M. Siegal-Gaskins

We propose a comprehensive theory of dark matter that explains the recent proliferation of unexpected observations in high-energy astrophysics. Cosmic ray spectra from ATIC and PAMELA require a WIMP with mass M_chi ~ 500 - 800 GeV that…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-02-26 Nima Arkani-Hamed , Douglas P. Finkbeiner , Tracy R. Slatyer , Neal Weiner

The annihilation signal of particle dark matter can be strongly enhanced in over-dense regions such as close to the Galactic centre. We summarize some of our recent results on fluxes of gamma-rays, neutrinos and radio waves under different…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Guenter Sigl , Gianfranco Bertone