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Local dwarf spheroidal galaxies (dSphs) are nearby dark-matter dominated systems, making them excellent targets for searching for gamma rays from particle dark matter interactions. If dark matter annihilates or decays directly into two…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-05-06 The HAWC Collaboration

Dark matter annihilation into photons in our galaxy would constitute an exciting indirect signal of its existence, as underscored by tentative evidence for 130 GeV dark matter in Fermi/LAT data. Models that give a large annihilation cross…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-11-11 James M. Cline , Grace Dupuis , Zuowei Liu

The density spike of dark matter (DM) in the subparsec region near the supermassive black hole at the Galactic Center can provide potentially observable gamma-ray signals coming from DM annihilations. Taking Fermi-$LAT$ data for the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-08-08 Pearl Sandick , Kuver Sinha , Takahiro Yamamoto

Numerous experiments currently underway offer the potential to indirectly probe new charged particles with masses at the weak scale. For example, the tentative excess in Higgs diphoton decay and the tentative gamma-ray line in Fermi-LAT…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-12 JiJi Fan , Matthew Reece

We describe a characteristic signature of dark matter (DM) annihilation or decay into gamma-rays. We show that if the total angular momentum of the initial DM particle(s) vanishes, and helicity suppression operates to prevent…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-09-28 V. Barger , Y. Gao , W. -Y. Keung , D. Marfatia

We study diffuse gamma-ray emission at intermediate Galactic latitudes measured by the Fermi Large Area Telescope with the aim of searching for a signal from dark matter annihilation or decay. In the absence of a robust dark matter signal,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-12 Gabrijela Zaharijas , Jan Conrad , Alessandro Cuoco , Zhaoyu Yang

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

If dark matter consists of weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs), dark matter subhalos in the Milky Way could be detectable as gamma-ray point sources due to WIMP annihilation. In this work, we perform an updated study of the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-05-25 Djoeke Schoonenberg , Jennifer Gaskins , Gianfranco Bertone , Jürg Diemand

In hidden sector models, dark matter does not directly couple to the particle content of the Standard Model, strongly suppressing rates at direct detection experiments, while still allowing for large signals from annihilation. In this…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-08-25 Dan Hooper , Rebecca K. Leane , Yu-Dai Tsai , Shalma Wegsman , Samuel J. Witte

We examine the constraints on final state radiation from Weakly Interacting Massive Particle (WIMP) dark matter candidates annihilating into various standard model final states, as imposed by the measurement of the isotropic diffuse…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-07-16 Kevork N. Abazajian , Prateek Agrawal , Zackaria Chacko , Can Kilic

Recent gamma-ray observations and radio observations put strong constraints on the parameters of dark matter annihilation. In this article, we derive new constraints for six standard model annihilation channels by using the recent radio…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-08-03 Man Ho Chan

Annihilation of light dark matter of $m_{\rm DM} \approx (10-40)$ GeV into the Standard Model fermions has been suggested as a possible origin of the gamma-ray excess at GeV energies in the Fermi-LAT data. In this paper, we examine possible…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-19 Kyoungchul Kong , Jong-Chul Park

We consider the diffuse gamma ray data from FERMI first year observations and compare them to the gamma ray fluxes predicted by Dark Matter annihilation or decay (both from prompt emission and from Inverse Compton Scattering), for different…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-13 Marco Cirelli , Paolo Panci , Pasquale D. Serpico

The combination of S-matrix unitarity and the dynamics of thermal freeze-out for massive relic particles (denoted here simply by WIMPs) implies a lower limit on the density of such particles, that provide a (potentially sub-dominant)…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-07-29 Kfir Blum , Yanou Cui , Marc Kamionkowski

We study spectral features in the gamma-ray emission from dark matter (DM) annihilation in the Next-to-Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model (NMSSM), with either neutralino or right-handed (RH) sneutrino DM. We perform a series of scans…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-04-07 D. G. Cerdeno , M. Peiro , S. Robles

In recent years, direct detection, indirect detection, and collider experiments have placed increasingly stringent constraints on particle dark matter, exploring much of the parameter space associated with the WIMP paradigm. In this paper,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-12-21 Miguel Escudero , Asher Berlin , Dan Hooper , Meng-Xiang Lin

We present here a study of the direct and indirect detection prospects of a generic dark matter simplified model, in which the Majorana dark matter interacts only with a Standard Model lepton and a pair of uncolored mixing scalar mediators.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-11-23 Fei Teng

We point out the possibility to test the simplest scalar dark matter model at gamma-ray telescopes. We discuss the relevant constraints and show the predictions for direct detection, gamma line searches and LHC searches. Since the final…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-10-21 Michael Duerr , Pavel Fileviez Perez , Juri Smirnov

Very recently, it was pointed out that there exists a population of gamma-ray sources without associations at other wavelengths which exhibit spectral features consistent with mono-energetic lines at energies of approximately 111 and 129…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-05-30 Dan Hooper , Tim Linden

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