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We study gamma-ray line signatures from electroweakly interacting non-abelian spin-1 dark matter (DM). In this model, $Z_2$-odd spin-1 particles including a DM candidate have the SU(2)$_L$ triplet-like features, and the Sommerfeld…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-10-29 Tomohiro Abe , Motoko Fujiwara , Junji Hisano , Kohei Matsushita

There is evidence for a spectral line at $E_\gamma\approx 130$ GeV in the Fermi-LAT data that can be explained as dark mater particles annihilating into photons. We review a well known dark matter model that consists in a singlet Dirac…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-10-13 T. H. Franarin , C. A. Z. Vasconcellos , D. Hadjimichef

If dark matter annihilates into standard model particles with a cross-section which is velocity dependent, then Local Group dwarf galaxies will not be the best place to search for the resulting gamma ray emission. A greater flux would be…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-16 Andrija Kostić , Deaglan J. Bartlett , Harry Desmond

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

Dark Matter remains a great mystery in modern physics. Among various candidates, the weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs) scenario stands out and is under extensive study. The detection of the hypothetical gamma-ray emission from…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-10-07 Abhishek Abhishek , Shotaro Abe , Tomohiro Inada , Sofia Ventura , Michele Doro , Masahiro Teshima , Gaia Verna

Gamma-ray is a good probe of dark matter (DM) particles in the Universe. We search for the DM annihilation signals in the direction of the Andromeda galaxy (M31) using 7.5 year Fermi-LAT pass 8 data. Similar to Pshirkov et al. (2016), we…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-12-21 Zhengwei Li , Xiaoyuan Huang , Qiang Yuan , Yupeng Xu

We discuss a simple theory for physics beyond the Standard Model where a Majorana dark matter is predicted from anomaly cancellation. We discuss in detail the minimal theory where the baryon number is a local symmetry spontaneously broken…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-04-01 Hridoy Debnath , Pavel Fileviez Perez , Kevin Gonzalez-Quesada

The annihilations of WIMPs produce high energy gamma-rays in the final state. These high energy gamma-rays may be detected by IACTs such as the H.E.S.S. array of Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov telescopes. Besides the popular targets such as…

Astrophysics · Physics 2012-08-27 H. E. S. S. Collaboration , : , E. Moulin

Automated tools for the computation of amplitudes and cross sections have become the backbone of phenomenological studies beyond the standard model. We present the latest developments in MadDM, a calculator of dark-matter observables based…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-12-01 Daniele Massaro , Chiara Arina , Jan Heisig , Fabio Maltoni , Olivier Mattelaer

We propose a simple yet testable framework for light fermion dark matter (DM) with mass in the MeV--GeV range, charged under a dark $U(1)_D$ gauge symmetry. The $U(1)_D$ is spontaneously broken by a scalar field $\Phi$, giving mass to the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-01-21 Satyabrata Mahapatra , Partha Kumar Paul , Narendra Sahu

We show that it is possible for WIMP dark matter to produce a large signal in indirect dark matter searches without producing signals elsewhere. We illustrate our point by fitting the Fermi-LAT extended galactic gamma-ray excess with a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-05-09 Celine Boehm , Matthew J. Dolan , Christopher McCabe , Michael Spannowsky , Chris J. Wallace

We study the gamma rays observed by the Fermi Gamma Ray Space Telescope from the direction of the Galactic Center and find that their angular distribution and energy spectrum are well described by a dark matter annihilation scenario. In…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-11 Lisa Goodenough , Dan Hooper

Our Galaxy resides in the center of a vast "Halo" of Dark Matter (DM). This concentration produces, in many viable particle physics models, an indirect Weakly Interacting Massive Particle (WIMP) annihilation signal that peaks in the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-03-17 Brandon Anderson

We derive robust model-independent bounds on DM annihilations and decays from the first year of FERMI gamma-ray observations of the whole sky. These bounds only have a mild dependence on the DM density profile and allow the following DM…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-11-20 Michele Papucci , Alessandro Strumia

We study the annihilating dark matter contribution to the extra-galactic diffuse gamma-ray background spectrum, motivated by the recent observations of cosmic-ray positron/electron anomalies. The observed diffuse gamma-ray flux provides…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2009-09-02 Masahiro Kawasaki , Kazunori Kohri , Kazunori Nakayama

While cosmological and astrophysical probes suggest that dark matter would make up for 85% of the total matter content of the Universe, the determination of its nature remains one of the greatest challenges of fundamental physics. Assuming…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-12-07 Celine Armand , Björn Herrmann

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

A leading hypothesis for the nature of the elusive dark matter are thermally produced, weakly interacting massive particles that arise in many theories beyond the standard model of particle physics. Their self-annihilation in astrophysical…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-08-23 Torsten Bringmann

Recently, several groups identified a tentative $\gamma$-ray line signal with energy $\sim 130$ GeV in the central Galaxy from the Fermi-LAT data. %The morphology study shows that the signal is consistent with dark matter %annihilation, but…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-08-24 Rui-Zhi Yang , Qiang Yuan , Lei Feng , Yi-Zhong Fan , Jin Chang

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…