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Very recently the Dark Energy Survey (DES) Collaboration has released their second group of Dwarf spheroidal (dSph) galaxy candidates. With the publicly-available Pass 8 data of Fermi-LAT we search for $\gamma-$ray emissions from the…

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Dark photons in the MeV to GeV mass range are important targets for experimental searches. We consider the case where dark photons $A'$ decay invisibly to hidden dark matter $X$ through $A' \to XX$. For generic masses, proposed accelerator…

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We report on a search for monochromatic $\gamma$-ray features in the spectra of galaxy clusters observed by the \emph{Fermi} Large Area Telescope. Galaxy clusters are the largest structures in the Universe that are bound by dark matter…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-02-10 B. Anderson , S. Zimmer , J. Conrad , M. Gustafsson , M. Sánchez-Conde , R. Caputo

Galaxy clusters are the largest gravitationally bound objects in the universe and may be suitable targets for indirect dark matter searches. With 85 months of Fermi-LAT Pass 8 publicly available data, we analyze the gamma-ray emission in…

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The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) will be the next generation ground-based observatory for very-high-energy (VHE) gamma-ray astronomy, with the deployment of tens of highly sensitive and fast-reacting Cherenkov telescopes. It will cover a…

Gamma-ray lines constitute a smoking gun signature for annihilating dark matter particles. Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescopes and satellites have searched for such signals but null results have been reported thus far. We take…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-09-11 Lucia Angel , Debasish Borah , Jacinto P. Neto , Farinaldo S. Queiroz , Vitor de Souza

Strong evidence exists for a highly significant correlation between the radio flux density and gamma-ray energy flux in blazars revealed by Fermi. However, there are central issues that need to be clarified in this field: what are the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-15 M. Giroletti , M. Orienti , F. D'Ammando , F. Massaro , G. Tosti , R. Lico , G. Giovannini , I. Agudo , A. Alberdi , H. Bignall , M. Pandey-Pommier , A. Wolter

We investigate the feasibility of the indirect detection of dark matter in a simple model using the neutrino portal. The model is very economical, with right-handed neutrinos generating neutrino masses through the Type-I seesaw mechanism…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-12-17 Brian Batell , Tao Han , Barmak Shams Es Haghi

We propose a dedicated analysis approach for indirect Dark Matter searches with Imaging Air Cherenkov Telescopes. By using the full likelihood analysis, we take complete advantage of the distinct features expected in the gamma ray spectrum…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2012-10-19 Jelena Aleksic , Javier Rico , Manel Martinez

We compute the single bremsstrahlung emission associated with the pair annihilation of spin-0 particles into electrons and positrons, via the t-channel exchange of a heavy fermion. We compare our result with the work of Beacom et al. .…

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We measure the cross-correlation between Fermi-LAT gamma-ray photons and over 1000 deg$^2$ of weak lensing data from the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope Lensing Survey (CFHTLenS), the Red Cluster Sequence Lensing Survey (RCSLenS), and the…

Possible dark matter candidates are reviewed as well as indirect search methods based on annihilation or decay channels of these particles. Neutralino is presently the best particle candidate and its annihilation produces high energy…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-16 José Antonio De Freitas Pacheco , Sébastien Peirani

Electroweakly interacting stable spin-1 particle in the $(1-10)$ TeV mass range can be a dark matter candidate with rich testability. In particular, one or even two gamma-ray line-like features are expected to be a smoking-gun signature for…

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We reconsider the model of Minimal Dark Matter (a fermionic, hypercharge-less quintuplet of the EW interactions) and compute its gamma ray signatures. We compare them with a number of gamma ray probes: the galactic halo diffuse…

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We update indirect constraints on Electro-Weak Dark Matter (EWDM) considering the Sommerfeld-Ramsauer-Townsend (SRT) effect for its annihilations into a pair of standard model gauge bosons assuming that EWDM accounts for the observed dark…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-09-30 Eung Jin Chun , Jong-Chul Park

The origin of sub-TeV gamma rays detected by the \textit{Fermi}-Large Area Telescope (LAT) from the \textit{Fermi} Bubbles (FBs) at the Galactic center is still uncertain. In a hadronic model, acceleration of protons and/or nuclei and their…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-04-17 Lili Yang , Soebur Razzaque

We examine the recently-reported low-energy electron recoil spectrum observed at the XENON1T underground dark matter direct detection experiment, in the context of new interactions with solar neutrinos. In particular we show that scalar and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-11-22 Celine Boehm , David G. Cerdeno , Malcolm Fairbairn , Pedro A. N. Machado , Aaron C. Vincent

The H.E.S.S. array of Cherenkov telescopes has performed, from 2004 to 2007, a survey of the inner Galactic plane at photon energies above 100 GeV. About 400 hours of data have been accumulated in the region between -30 and +60 degrees in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-09-29 HESS Collaboration , F Aharonian , G. Bertone

Several nearby ultra-faint satellites of the Milky Way discovered by the Dark Energy Survey (DES) during the last few years are promising targets for indirect dark matter (DM) searches with very-high-energy (VHE, E$\gtrsim$100 GeV) gamma…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-09-05 Lucia Rinchiuso , Emmanuel Moulin , Céline Armand , Vincent Poireau , H. E. S. S. Collaboration

Galaxy clusters are one of the prime sites to search for dark matter (DM) annihilation signals. Depending on the substructure of the DM halo of a galaxy cluster and the cross sections for DM annihilation channels, these signals might be…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-08-07 M. Ackermann , M. Ajello , A. Albert , W. B. Atwood , L. Baldini , G. Barbiellini , D. Bastieri , K. Bechtol , R. Bellazzini , E. Bissaldi , E. D. Bloom , R. Bonino , E. Bottacini , T. J. Brandt , J. Bregeon , P. Bruel , R. Buehler , S. Buson , G. A. Caliandro , R. A. Cameron , R. Caputo , M. Caragiulo , P. A. Caraveo , J. M. Casandjian , E. Cavazzuti , C. Cecchi , E. Charles , A. Chekhtman , G. Chiaro , S. Ciprini , J. Cohen-Tanugi , J. Conrad , S. Cutini , F. D'Ammando , A. de Angelis , F. de Palma , R. Desiante , S. W. Digel , L. Di Venere , P. S. Drell , C. Favuzzi , S. J. Fegan , W. B. Focke , A. Franckowiak , Y. Fukazawa , S. Funk , P. Fusco , F. Gargano , D. Gasparrini , N. Giglietto , F. Giordano , M. Giroletti , T. Glanzman , G. Godfrey , G. A. Gomez-Vargas , I. A. Grenier , S. Guiriec , M. Gustafsson , J. W. Hewitt , A. B. Hill , D. Horan , T. E. Jeltema , T. Jogler , A. S. Johnson , M. Kuss , S. Larsson , L. Latronico , J. Li , L. Li , F. Longo , F. Loparco , M. N. Lovellette , P. Lubrano , S. Maldera , D. Malyshev , A. Manfreda , M. Mayer , M. N. Mazziotta , P. F. Michelson , T. Mizuno , M. E. Monzani , A. Morselli , I. V. Moskalenko , S. Murgia , E. Nuss , T. Ohsugi , M. Orienti , E. Orlando , J. F. Ormes , D. Paneque , J. S. Perkins , M. Pesce-Rollins , V. Petrosian , F. Piron , G. Pivato , T. A. Porter , S. Rainò , R. Rando , M. Razzano , A. Reimer , O. Reimer , M. Sánchez-Conde , A. Schulz , C. Sgró , E. J. Siskind , F. Spada , G. Spandre , P. Spinelli , E. Storm , H. Tajima , H. Takahashi , J. B. Thayer , D. F. Torres , G. Tosti , E. Troja , G. Vianello , K. S. Wood , M. Wood , G. Zaharijas , S. Zimmer , A. Pinzke