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We have witnessed in the past decade the observation of a puzzling cosmic-ray excess at energies larger than $10$ GeV. The AMS-02 data published this year has new ingredients such as the bump around $300$ GeV followed by a drop at $800$…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-04-15 Farinaldo S. Queiroz , Clarissa Siqueira

The AMS-02 collaboration has recently reported the antiproton to proton ratio with improved accuracy. In view of uncertainties of the production and the propagation of the cosmic rays, the observed ratio is still consistent with the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-24 Masahiro Ibe , Shigeki Matsumoto , Satoshi Shirai , Tsutomu T. Yanagida

Dark matter (DM) annihilation in the galactic halo can be enhanced relative to that in the early Universe due to the Breit-Wigner enhancement, if the DM particles annihilate through a narrow resonance. Although the $s$-wave Breit-Wigner…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-02-23 Yu-Chen Ding , Yu-Lin Ku , Chun-Cheng Wei , Yu-Feng Zhou

The Galactic positrons, as observed by their annihilation gamma-ray line at 0.511 MeV, are difficult to account for with astrophysical sources. It has been proposed that they are produced instead by dark matter annihilation or decay in the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-07-09 John F. Beacom , Nicole F. Bell , Gianfranco Bertone

Recently the AMS-02 experiment has released the data of positron fraction with much small statistical error. Because of the small error, it is no longer easy to fit the data with a single dark matter for a fixed diffusion model and dark…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-15 Yuji Kajiyama , Hiroshi Okada , Takashi Toma

Several studies have pointed out an excess in the AMS-02 antiproton spectrum at rigidities of 10-20 GV. Its spectral properties were found to be consistent with a dark-matter particle of mass 50-100 GeV which annihilates hadronically at…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-10-07 Jan Heisig , Michael Korsmeier , Martin Wolfgang Winkler

We use multi-component decaying dark matter (DM) scenario to explain the possible cosmic ray excesses in the positron fraction recently confirmed by AMS-02 and the total $e^+ +e^-$ flux observed by Fermi-LAT. In the two-component DM models,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-12-01 Chao-Qiang Geng , Da Huang , Lu-Hsing Tsai

Photons produced in the annihilations of dark matter particles can be detected by gamma-ray telescopes; this technique of indirect detection serves as a cornerstone of the upcoming assault on the dark matter paradigm. The main obstacle to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-07-08 Eric J. Baxter , Scott Dodelson

Numerical simulations of dark matter collapse and structure formation show that in addition to a large halo surrounding the baryonic component of our galaxy, there also exists a significant number of subhalos that extend hundreds of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-04-22 James M. Cline , Aaron C. Vincent , Wei Xue

In the following work, we compute the positron production from branon dark matter annihilations in order to constrain extra-dimensional theories. By having assumed that the positron fraction measured by AMS-02 is well explained just with…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-02-13 Jose A. R. Cembranos , Alvaro de la Cruz-Dombriz , Peter K. S. Dunsby , Miguel Mendez-Isla

If the dark matter particle is a Majorana fermion, annihilations into two fermions and one gauge boson could have, for some choices of the parameters of the model, a non-negligible cross-section. Using a toy model of leptophilic dark…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-05-28 Mathias Garny , Alejandro Ibarra , Stefan Vogl

The rise in the energy spectrum of the positron ratio, observed by the PAMELA satellite above 10 GeV, and other cosmic ray measurements, have been interpreted as a possible signature of Dark Matter annihilation in the Galaxy. However, the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-11-18 Miguel Pato , Lidia Pieri , Gianfranco Bertone

In recent years, a number of experiments have been conducted with the goal of studying cosmic rays at GeV to TeV energies. This is a particularly interesting regime from the perspective of indirect dark matter detection. To draw reliable…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2009-11-05 Melanie Simet , Dan Hooper

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

Motivated by the gamma-ray excess observed from the region surrounding the Galactic Center, we explore particle dark matter models that could potentially account for the spectrum and normalization of this signal. Taking a model-independent…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-04 Asher Berlin , Dan Hooper , Samuel D. McDermott

Annihilation of dark matter particles in cosmological halos (including a halo of the Milky Way) contributes to the diffuse gamma-ray background (DGRB). As this contribution will appear anisotropic in the sky, one can use the angular power…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-07-31 Shin'ichiro Ando , Eiichiro Komatsu

A new measurement of the cosmic ray positron fraction in the energy range of 1-50 GeV is presented. The measurement is based on data taken by the AMS-01 experiment during its 10 day space shuttle flight in June 1998. A proton background…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Henning Gast , Jan Olzem , Stefan Schael

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

Dark Matter (DM) annihilation in our Galaxy may produce a linearly polarized synchrotron signal. We use, for the first time, synchrotron polarization to constrain the DM annihilation cross section by comparing theoretical predictions with…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-09-13 Silvia Manconi , Alessandro Cuoco , Julien Lesgourgues

The dark matter halo of the Milky Way is predicted to contain a very large number of smaller subhalos. As a result of the dark matter annihilations taking place within such objects, the most nearby and massive subhalos could appear as…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-01-22 Asher Berlin , Dan Hooper