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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 consider a simplified model of fermionic dark matter which couples exclusively to the right-handed top quark via a renormalizable interaction with a color-charged scalar. We first compute the relic abundance of this type of dark matter…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-19 M. A. Gomez , C. B. Jackson , G. Shaughnessy

The aim of this work is to improve models for the gamma-ray discrete or small-scale structure related to H2 interstellar gas. Reliably identifying this contribution is important to disentangle gamma-ray point sources from interstellar gas,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-07-12 Christopher M. Karwin , Alex Broughton , Simona Murgia , Alexander Shmakov , Mohammadamin Tavakoli , Pierre Baldi

Observations of the Galactic center region with the H.E.S.S. telescopes have established the existence of a steady, extended source of gamma-ray emission coinciding with the position of the super massive black hole Sgr A*. This is a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 D. Horns

The observation of a gamma-ray line in the cosmic-ray fluxes would be a smoking-gun signature for dark matter annihilation or decay in the Universe. We present an improved search for such signatures in the data of the Fermi Large Area…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2012-08-09 Christoph Weniger

We study the origin of the positron excess observed in the local cosmic-ray spectrum at high energies, and relate it to the cosmic rays and gamma-ray emission across the entire Galaxy. In particular, we explore the hypothesis of a single,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-03-07 Manuel Rocamora , Yago Ascasibar , Miguel A. Sánchez-Conde , Maneenate Wechakama , Pedro de la Torre Luque

The analysis of the gamma-ray photons collected by the Fermi Large Area Telescope reveals, after removal of astrophysical background, the existence of an excess towards the Galactic center. This excess peaks around few GeV, and its origin…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-17 Wei-Chih Huang , Alfredo Urbano , Wei Xue

Dark matter in the halos surrounding galaxy groups and clusters can annihilate to high-energy photons. Recent advancements in the construction of galaxy group catalogs provide many thousands of potential extragalactic targets for dark…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-05-07 Mariangela Lisanti , Siddharth Mishra-Sharma , Nicholas L. Rodd , Benjamin R. Safdi , Risa H. Wechsler

Detection of gamma rays from dark matter annihilation in the galactic center is one of the feasible techniques to search for dark matter. We evaluate the gamma ray flux in the case that the dark matter has an electroweak SU(2)_L charge.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-10 Junji Hisano , Shigeki. Matsumoto , Mihoko M. Nojiri , Osamu Saito

The presence of dark matter in the Universe is nowadays widely supported by a large body of astronomical and cosmological observations. One of the best targets to look for dark matter particle self-annihilation into very high energy…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-14 V. Lefranc , E. Moulin

The existing and upcoming multiwavelength data from the Galactic Center suggest a comparative study in order to propose or rule out possible models which would explain the observations. In this paper we consider the X-ray synchrotron and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Lars Bergstrom , Malcolm Fairbairn , Lidia Pieri

Observations from multiple gamma-ray telescopes have uncovered a high energy gamma-ray source spatially coincident with the Galactic center. Recently, a compelling model for the broad-band gamma-ray emission has been formulated which posits…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-05 Tim Linden , Stefano Profumo

The recent analyses of the Fermi Large Area Telescope data show an extended GeV $\gamma$-ray excess on top of the expected diffuse background in the Galactic center region, which can be explained with annihilating dark matter or a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-04-23 Qiang Yuan , Kunihito Ioka

We investigate the possibility of fitting the putative spectrum of gamma-rays from annihilating dark matter at the Galactic Center by a super-exponential template. By generating and analyzing mock data for several ongoing and future…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-08-22 Alexander V. Belikov , Joseph Silk

We show the presence of a potentially detectable gamma-ray line in the Fermi Galactic center excess in light of the secluded (vector) dark matter (DM) model in which the hidden scalar, nearly degenerate with DM in mass, mediates the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-08-26 Kwei-Chou Yang

Several cosmic ray experiments have measured excesses in electrons and positrons, relative to standard backgrounds, for energies from ~ 10 GeV - 1 TeV. These excesses could be due to new astrophysical sources, but an explanation in which…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-11-20 Spencer Chang , Lisa Goodenough

Recent advances in gamma-ray cosmic ray, infrared and radio astronomy have allowed us to develop a significantly better understanding of the galactic medium properties in the last few years. In this work using the DRAGON code, that…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-03-05 Maryam Tavakoli , Ilias Cholis , Carmelo Evoli , Piero Ullio

We show, by using an extensive sample of viable supersymmetric models as templates, that indirect detection of dark matter through gamma rays may have a large potential for identifying the nature of dark matter. This is in particular true…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-03-23 Lars Bergstrom , Torsten Bringmann , Joakim Edsjo

The prospects of indirect detection of dark matter at the galactic center depend sensitively on the mass profile within the inner parsec. We calculate the distribution of dark matter on sub-parsec scales by integrating the time-dependent…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Gianfranco Bertone , David Merritt

Recently reported tentative evidence for a gamma-ray line in the Fermi-LAT data is of great potential interest for identifying the nature of dark matter. We compare the implications for decaying and annihilating dark matter taking the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-05 Wilfried Buchmuller , Mathias Garny