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Using the high-resolution spectrometer SPI on board the International Gamma-Ray Astrophysics Laboratory (INTEGRAL), we search for a spectral line produced by a dark matter(DM) particle with a mass in the range 40keV < M_DM < 14MeV, decaying…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Alexey Boyarsky , Denys Malyshev , Andrey Neronov , Oleg Ruchayskiy

We present updated constraints on 'light' Dark Matter (DM) particles with masses between 1 MeV and 5 GeV. In this range, we can expect DM-produced $e^\pm$ pairs to up-scatter low-energy ambient photons in the Milky Way via the Inverse…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-01-17 Jordan Koechler

A light scalar dark matter (DM) is allowed in a wide range of the mass and interaction types. We show that the light scalar DM may be probed in a new way from final years of neutron-star (NS) binary inspirals. If the DM interacts with the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-01-16 Han Gil Choi , Sunghoon Jung

Existence of new gauge U(1) symmetry possessed by dark matter (DM) particles implies the existence of a new Coulomb-like interaction, which leads to Sommerfeld-Gamow-Sakharov enhancement of dark matter annihilation at low relative…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-10-01 K. Belotsky , M. Khlopov , A. Kirillov

In this letter we begin the study of visible dark sector signals coming from binary neutron star mergers. We focus on dark photons emitted in the 10 ms - 1 s after the merger, and show how they can lead to bright transient gamma-ray…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-10-19 Melissa D. Diamond , Gustavo Marques-Tavares

Observations of nearby galaxies and galaxy clusters have reported an unexpected X-ray emission line around 3.5 kilo-electron volts (keV). Proposals to explain this line include decaying dark matter$-$in particular, that the decay of sterile…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-03-03 Christopher Dessert , Nicholas L. Rodd , Benjamin R. Safdi

Dark matter (DM) in the Milky Way halo may annihilate or decay to photons, producing monochromatic gamma rays. We search for DM-induced spectral lines using 14 years of data from the Large Area Telescope onboard the Fermi Gamma-ray Space…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-06-07 Joshua W. Foster , Yujin Park , Benjamin R. Safdi , Yotam Soreq , Weishuang Linda Xu

We present a simple model of weak-scale thermal dark matter that gives rise to X-ray lines. Dark matter consists of two nearly degenerate states near the weak scale, which are populated thermally in the early universe via co-annihilation…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-22 Adam Falkowski , Yonit Hochberg , Joshua T. Ruderman

Millicharged particles are well-motivated dark matter candidates arising in many extensions of the Standard Model. We show that, despite their tiny coupling $e_m$ to photons, millicharged dark matter (mDM) in the Earth's geomagnetic field…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-01-13 Ariel Arza , Yuanlin Gong , Jing Shu , Lei Wu , Qiang Yuan , Bin Zhu

We consider indirect detection signals of atomic dark matter, with a massive dark photon which mixes kinetically with hypercharge. In significant regions of parameter space, dark matter remains at least partially ionized today, and dark…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-04-29 Lauren Pearce , Kalliopi Petraki , Alexander Kusenko

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

We revisit the signatures from collisions of cosmic-rays on sub-GeV dark matter (DM) in the Milky Way. In addition to the upscattered DM component that can be probed by existing DM and neutrino experiments widely discussed, we examine the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-11-09 Gang Guo , Yue-Lin Sming Tsai , Meng-Ru Wu , Qiang Yuan

Sterile neutrinos with masses in the keV range are well-motivated extensions to the Standard Model that could explain the observed neutrino masses while also making up the dark matter (DM) of the Universe. If sterile neutrinos are DM then…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-08-04 Joshua W. Foster , Marius Kongsore , Christopher Dessert , Yujin Park , Nicholas L. Rodd , Kyle Cranmer , Benjamin R. Safdi

Sub-GeV dark matter particles can annihilate or decay producing e^\pm pairs which upscatter the low-energy photon fields in the Galaxy and generate an X-ray emission (via the Inverse Compton effect). Using X-ray data from XMM-Newton,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-07-18 Marco Cirelli , Nicolao Fornengo , Jordan Koechler , Elena Pinetti , Brandon M. Roach

We propose an alternative mechanism based upon dark matter (DM) interpretation for anomalous peak signatures in cosmic ray measurements, assuming an extended dark sector with two DM species. This is contrasted with previous effort to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-10-07 Doojin Kim , Jong-Chul Park

Over the past few decades, an anomalous 511 keV gamma-ray line has been observed from the centre of the Milky Way. Dark matter (DM) in the form of light weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs) annihilating into electron-positron pairs…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-12-01 Ryan J. Wilkinson , Aaron C. Vincent , Celine Boehm , Christopher McCabe

We examine the possibility of a dark matter (DM) contribution to the recently observed gamma-ray spectrum seen in the M31 galaxy. In particular, we apply limits on Weakly Interacting Massive Particle DM annihilation cross-sections derived…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-10-17 Geoff Beck , Sergio Colafrancesco

In this contribution I review the present status and discuss some prospects for indirect detection of dark matter with gamma-rays. Thanks to the Fermi Large Area Telescope, searches in gamma-rays have reached sensitivities that allow to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 Jan Conrad

The multi-messenger astroparticle physics provides a new approach to probe the new physics beyond the Standard Model. We propose to probe the light dark matter which can interact with electromagnetic interaction. To be concrete, we derive…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-12-30 Wenxing Zhang , Junle Pei , Xin Zhang , Tianjun Li

Minimal Dark Matter (MDM) is a theoretical framework highly appreciated for its minimality and yet its predictivity. Of the two only viable candidates singled out in the original analysis, the scalar eptaplet has been found to decay too…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-05-04 Eugenio Del Nobile , Marco Nardecchia , Paolo Panci