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In the past few decades, observations indicated that an unexplained high production rate of positrons (the strong 511 keV line) exists in the Milky Way center. By using the fact that a large amount of high density gas used to exist near the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-09-11 Man Ho Chan , Chung Hei Leung

Gamma-ray observations of the Galactic Center (GC) region provide some of the most sensitive measurements of annihilation signals from dark matter in the GeV-TeV mass range. We present the first results from 178 hours of VERITAS…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-09-25 James L Ryan

Axions are a promising dark matter candidate that were motivated to solve the strong CP problem and that may also address the cosmological matter-antimatter asymmetry. Axion-photon conversion is possible in the presence of the strong…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-08-26 Jeremy Darling

Recent evidence for an excess of gamma rays in the GeV energy range about the Galactic Center have refocused attention on models of dark matter in the low mass regime ($m_\chi \lesssim m_Z/2$). Because this is an experimentally well-trod…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-08-21 Jia Liu , Neal Weiner , Wei Xue

An excess of gamma rays at GeV energies has been detected in the Fermi-LAT data. This signal comes from a narrow region around the Galactic Center and has been interpreted as possible evidence for light (30 GeV) dark matter particles.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-01-30 Thomas Lacroix

The search for cosmic ray anisotropy has been performed using particles collected by the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer after the first five years of operation. The positron to electron ratio is consistent with isotropy at all energies and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-12-30 G. La Vacca , AMS-02 Collaboration

Current and most upcoming neutrino detectors can only reach a dark matter annihilation cross section to neutrinos larger than the standard freeze-out value, but they open intriguing detection avenues for non-standard dark matter paradigms.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-08-06 Shinya Kanemura , Shao-Ping Li , Dibyendu Nanda

The overabundance of high-energy cosmic positrons, observed by PAMELA and AMS-02, can be considered as the consequence of dark matter decays or annihilations. We show that recent FERMI/LAT measurements of the isotropic diffuse gamma-ray…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-07-11 Maxim Laletin

Dark matter with mass below about a GeV is essentially unobservable in conventional direct detection experiments. However, newly proposed technology will allow the detection of single electron events in semiconductor materials with…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2012-11-13 Peter W. Graham , David E. Kaplan , Surjeet Rajendran , Matthew T. Walters

Recent indirect searches of dark matter using gamma-ray, radio, and cosmic-ray data have provided some stringent constraints on annihilating dark matter. In this article, we propose a new indirect method to constrain annihilating dark…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-09-12 Man Ho Chan , Chak Man Lee

The possibility that the Galactic dark matter is composed of neutralinos that are just above half the $Z^o$ mass is examined, in the context of the Galactic positron excess. In particular, we check if the anomalous bump in the cosmic ray…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Irit Maor

Extensive air shower detectors of gamma rays in the sub-PeV energy region provide a new and relatively unexplored window for dark matter searches. Here we derive some implications of the recently published Tibet AS$_\gamma$ data for…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-07-14 Arman Esmaili , Pasquale D. Serpico

Cosmic-ray and gamma-ray observations have yielded several notable excesses that often lend themselves to explanation by various dark matter annihilation/decay models. In particular, the AMS-02 anti-proton and positron excesses have…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-09-04 Geoff Beck

Cosmic-ray observations provide a powerful probe of dark matter annihilation in the Galaxy. In this paper we derive constraints on heavy dark matter from the recent precise AMS-02 antiproton data. We consider all possible annihilation…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-04-23 Alessandro Cuoco , Jan Heisig , Michael Korsmeier , Michael Krämer

The data recently obtained by PAMELA and ATIC show the presence of the peak in the cosmic positron spectrum at energies above 100 GeV. In this paper it has been shown that the peak can arise due to processes of the interaction of cosmic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2011-02-01 A. B. Flanchik

In the past decade, gamma-ray observations and radio observations put strong constraints on the parameters of dark matter annihilation. In this article, we suggest another robust way to constrain the parameters of dark matter annihilation.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-08-09 Man Ho Chan

If dark matter is unstable and the mass is within GeV-TeV regime, its decays produce high-energy photons that give contribution to the extragalactic gamma-ray background (EGRB). We constrain dark matter decay by analyzing the 50-month EGRB…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 Shin'ichiro Ando , Koji Ishiwata

The Large Area Telescope onboard the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope has collected the largest ever sample of high-energy cosmic-ray electron and positron events. Possible features in their energy spectrum could be a signature of the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-07-13 M. N. Mazziotta , F. Costanza , A. Cuoco , F. Gargano , F. Loparco , S. Zimmer

We revisit the model proposed earlier to account for the observed increase in the positron fraction in cosmic rays with increasing energy, in the light of new data from the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS-02) experiment. The model accounts…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-11-29 Philipp Mertsch , Subir Sarkar

We investigate the axion dark matter scenario (ADM), in which axions account for all of the dark matter in the Universe, in light of the most recent cosmological data. In particular, we use the Planck temperature data, complemented by WMAP…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-09-05 E. Di Valentino , E. Giusarma , M. Lattanzi , A. Melchiorri , O. Mena