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Future dedicated radio interferometers, including HERA and SKA, are very promising tools that aim to study the epoch of reionization and beyond via measurements of the 21 cm signal from neutral hydrogen. Dark matter (DM) annihilations into…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-17 Laura Lopez-Honorez , Olga Mena , Ángeles Moliné , Sergio Palomares-Ruiz , Aaron C. Vincent

Simplified models of the dark matter (co)annihilation mechanism predict striking new collider signatures untested by current searches. These models, which were codified in the coannihilation codex, provide the basis for a dark matter (DM)…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-10-12 Malte Buschmann , Sonia El Hedri , Anna Kaminska , Jia Liu , Maikel de Vries , Xiao-Ping Wang , Felix Yu , Jose Zurita

Exploring the realm of Dark Matter research, Light DM, which has a mass in the range of 1 MeV to 1 GeV, is a fascinating topic both theoretically and experimentally. We assume that the light dark matter is composed of complex scalars and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-04-05 Jun Guo , Lei Wu , Bin Zhu

Spectral lines are among the most powerful signatures for dark matter (DM) annihilation searches in very-high-energy $\gamma$-rays. The central region of the Milky Way halo is one of the most promising targets given its large amount of DM…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-06-27 H. E. S. S. Collaboration , H. Abdallah , A. Abramowski , F. Aharonian , F. Ait Benkhali , E. O. Angüner , M. Arakawa , M. Arrieta , P. Aubert , M. Backes , A. Balzer , M. Barnard , Y. Becherini , J. Becker Tjus , D. Berge , S. Bernhard , K. Bernlöhr , R. Blackwell , M. Böttcher , C. Boisson , J. Bolmont , S. Bonnefoy , P. Bordas , J. Bregeon , F. Brun , P. Brun , M. Bryan , M. Büchele , T. Bulik , M. Capasso , S. Caroff , A. Carosi , J. Carr , S. Casanova , M. Cerruti , N. Chakraborty , R. C. G. Chaves , A. Chen , J. Chevalier , S. Colafrancesco , B. Condon , J. Conrad , I. D. Davids , J. Decock , C. Deil , J. Devin , P. deWilt , L. Dirson , A. Djannati-Ataï , W. Domainko , A. Donath , L. O'C. Drury , K. Dutson , J. Dyks , T. Edwards , K. Egberts , P. Eger , G. Emery , J. P. Ernenwein , S. Eschbach , C. Farnier , S. Fegan , M. V. Fernandes , A. Fiasson , G. Fontaine , A. Förster , S. Funk , M. Füßling , S. Gabici , Y. A. Gallant , T. Garrigoux , F. Gaté , G. Giavitto , B. Giebels , D. Glawion , J. F. Glicenstein , D. Gottschall , M. H. Grondin , J. Hahn , M. Haupt , J. Hawkes , G. Heinzelmann , G. Henri , G. Hermann , J. A. Hinton , W. Hofmann , T. L. Holch , M. Holler , D. Horns , A. Ivascenko , H. Iwasaki , A. Jacholkowska , M. Jamrozy , M. Janiak , D. Jankowsky , F. Jankowsky , M. Jingo , L. Jouvin , I. Jung-Richardt , M. A. Kastendieck , K. Katarzyński , M. Katsuragawa , U. Katz , D. Kerszberg , D. Khangulyan , B. Khélifi , J. King , S. Klepser , D. Klochkov , W. Kluźniak , N. Komin , K. Kosack , S. Krakau , M. Kraus , P. P. Krüger , H. Laffon , G. Lamanna , J. Lau , J. P. Lees , J. Lefaucheur , A. Lemière , M. Lemoine-Goumard , J. P. Lenain , E. Leser , R. Liu , T. Lohse , M. Lorentz , R. López-Coto , I. Lypova , D. Malyshev , V. Marandon , A. Marcowith , C. Mariaud , R. Marx , G. Maurin , N. Maxted , M. Mayer , P. J. Meintjes , M. Meyer , A. M. W. Mitchell , R. Moderski , M. Mohamed , L. Mohrmann , K. Morå , E. Moulin , T. Murach , S. Nakashima , M. de Naurois , H. Ndiyavala , F. Niederwanger , J. Niemiec , L. Oakes , P. O'Brien , H. Odaka , S. Ohm , M. Ostrowski , I. Oya , M. Padovani , M. Panter , R. D. Parsons , N. W. Pekeur , G. Pelletier , C. Perennes , P. O. Petrucci , B. Peyaud , Q. Piel , S. Pita , V. Poireau , H. Poon , D. Prokhorov , H. Prokoph , G. Pühlhofer , M. Punch , A. Quirrenbach , S. Raab , R. Rauth , A. Reimer , O. Reimer , M. Renaud , R. de los Reyes , F. Rieger , L. Rinchiuso , C. Romoli , G. Rowell , B. Rudak , C. B. Rulten , V. Sahakian , S. Saito , D. A. Sanchez , A. Santangelo , M. Sasaki , M. Schandri , R. Schlickeiser , F. Schüssler , A. Schulz , U. Schwanke , S. Schwemmer , M. Seglar-Arroyo , M. Settimo , A. S. Seyffert , N. Shafi , I. Shilon , K. Shiningayamwe , R. Simoni , H. Sol , F. Spanier , M. Spir-Jacob , Ł. Stawarz , R. Steenkamp , C. Stegmann , C. Steppa , I. Sushch , T. Takahashi , J. P. Tavernet , T. Tavernier , A. M. Taylor , R. Terrier , L. Tibaldo , D. Tiziani , M. Tluczykont , C. Trichard , M. Tsirou , N. Tsuji , R. Tuffs , Y. Uchiyama , J. van der Walt , C. van Eldik , C. van Rensburg , B. van Soelen , G. Vasileiadis , J. Veh , C. Venter , A. Viana , P. Vincent , J. Vink , F. Voisin , H. J. Völk , T. Vuillaume , Z. Wadiasingh , S. J. Wagner , P. Wagner , R. M. Wagner , R. White , A. Wierzcholska , P. Willmann , A. Wörnlein , D. Wouters , R. Yang , D. Zaborov , M. Zacharias , R. Zanin , A. A. Zdziarski , A. Zech , F. Zefi , A. Ziegler , J. Zorn , N. Zywucka

Thermal freeze-out offers an attractive explanation of the dark matter density free from fine-tuning of initial conditions. For dark matter with a mass below tens of MeV, photons, electrons, and neutrinos are the only available direct…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-05-10 Xiaoyong Chu , Josef Pradler

Based on 4 yr AMS-02 antiproton data, we present bounds on the dark matter (DM) annihilation cross section vs. mass for some representative final state channels. We use recent cosmic-ray propagation models, a realistic treatment of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-05-18 Francesca Calore , Marco Cirelli , Laurent Derome , Yoann Genolini , David Maurin , Pierre Salati , Pasquale D. Serpico

The PAMELA, Fermi and HESS experiments (PFH) have shown anomalous excesses in the cosmic positron and electron fluxes. A very exciting possibility is that those excesses are due to annihilating dark matter (DM). In this paper we calculate…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-11-02 Gert Huetsi , Andi Hektor , Martti Raidal

If sub-GeV Dark matter(DM) annihilates to the charged particles such as $e^+ e^-$, $\mu^+ \mu^-$, or $\pi^+ \pi^-$, it generates an additional source of electrons and positrons in the cosmic ray (CR) population within our Milky Way. During…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-12-10 Guansen Wang , Bing-Yu Su , Lei Zu , Lei Feng

We compute in detail the rate at which energy injected by dark matter annihilation heats and ionizes the photon-baryon plasma at z ~ 1000, and provide accurate fitting functions over the relevant redshift range for a broad array of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2009-09-01 Tracy R. Slatyer , Nikhil Padmanabhan , Douglas P. Finkbeiner

We conduct a comprehensive analysis of potential annihilation processes of light dark matter (DM) in minimal Higgs portal models near supermassive black hole (Sgr A$^{\star}$) in the Galactic Center, considering interactions between DM…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-01-14 Chih-Ting Lu , Xiao-Yi Luo , Zi-Qing Xia

We consider dark matter annihilation into Standard Model particles and show that the least detectable final states, namely neutrinos, define an upper bound on the total cross section. Calculating the cosmic diffuse neutrino signal, and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 John F. Beacom , Nicole F. Bell , Gregory D. Mack

The extended excess toward the Galactic Center (GC) in gamma rays inferred from Fermi-LAT observations has been interpreted as being due to dark matter (DM) annihilation. Here, we perform new likelihood analyses of the GC and show that,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-01-27 Kevork N. Abazajian , Shunsaku Horiuchi , Manoj Kaplinghat , Ryan E. Keeley , Oscar Macias

We use Cosmic Microwave Background data from the WMAP, SPT, BICEP, and QUaD experiments to obtain constraints on the dark matter particle mass $m_\chi$, and show that the combined data requires $m_\chi > 7.6$ GeV at the 95% confidence level…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-05-30 Aravind Natarajan

We present constraints on decaying and annihilating dark matter (DM) in the 4 keV to 10 GeV mass range, using published results from the satellites HEAO-1, INTEGRAL, COMPTEL, EGRET, and the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope. We derive…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-17 Rouven Essig , Eric Kuflik , Samuel D. McDermott , Tomer Volansky , Kathryn M. Zurek

We perform an analysis of the cosmic reionization in the standard cold dark matter (CDM) paradigm and in alternative dark matter scenarios. Building upon the work of Corasaniti et al. (2017), we predict the reionization history for CDM, for…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-01-23 Isabella P. Carucci , Pier-Stefano Corasaniti

We reexamine the impact of dark matter (DM) annihilation on the intergalactic medium, taking into account the clumping of DM particles. We find that energy injection from the annihilation of the thermal relic DM particles may significantly…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Leonid Chuzhoy

Updated constraints on dark matter cross section and mass are presented combining CMB power spectrum measurements from Planck, WMAP9, ACT, and SPT as well as several low-redshift datasets (BAO, HST, supernovae). For the CMB datasets, we…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-12-01 Mathew S. Madhavacheril , Neelima Sehgal , Tracy R. Slatyer

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

We study the constraints that high-redshift structure formation in the universe places on warm dark matter (WDM) dominated cosmological models. We modify the extended Press-Schechter formalism to derive the halo mass function in WDM models.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 Rennan Barkana , Zoltan Haiman , Jeremiah P. Ostriker

The annihilation or decay of Dark Matter (DM) particles could affect the thermal history of the universe and leave an observable signature in Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) anisotropies. We update constraints on the annihilation rate of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 Gaelle Giesen , Julien Lesgourgues , Benjamin Audren , Yacine Ali-Haïmoud