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The apparent excess of gamma rays in an extended region in the direction of the galactic center has a spatial distribution and amplitude that are suggestive of dark matter annihilations. If this excess is indeed due to dark matter…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-11-19 Adam Martin , Jessie Shelton , James Unwin

We consider a simple extension of the type-II two-Higgs-doublet model by introducing a real scalar as a candidate for dark matter in the present Universe. The main annihilation mode of the dark matter particle with a mass of around $31-40$…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-12-30 Nobuchika Okada , Osamu Seto

The recently observed excess in gamma-ray signal near the Galactic center suggests that dark matter particles may annihilate into charged fermions that produce gamma-ray to be observed. In this paper, we consider a leptonic dark matter,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-09-29 Jongkuk Kim , Jong-Chul Park , Seong Chan Park

Evidence for an excess of gamma rays with O(GeV) energy coming from the center of our galaxy has been steadily accumulating over the past several years. Recent studies of the excess in data from the Fermi telescope have cast doubt on an…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-10-01 Seyda Ipek , David McKeen , Ann E. Nelson

The gamma-ray excess observed from the Galactic Center can be interpreted as dark matter particles annihilating into Standard Model fermions with a cross section near that expected for a thermal relic. Although many particle physics models…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-08-19 Asher Berlin , Pierre Gratia , Dan Hooper , Samuel D. McDermott

It has recently been shown that dark-matter annihilation to bottom quarks provides a good fit to the galactic-center gamma-ray excess identified in the Fermi-LAT data. In the favored dark matter mass range $m\sim 30-40$ GeV, achieving the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-09-10 Eder Izaguirre , Gordan Krnjaic , Brian Shuve

From astronomical observations, we know that dark matter exists and makes up $\sim$25\% of our Universe. Recently the study of anomalous gamma-ray emission in the regions surrounding the galactic center has drawn a lot of attention. It has…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-07-08 Tanmoy Mondal , Tanushree Basak

The apparent gamma-ray excess in the Galactic center region and inner Galaxy has attracted considerable interest, notably because both its spectrum and radial distribution are consistent with an interpretation in terms of annihilating dark…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-12-03 Torsten Bringmann , Martin Vollmann , Christoph Weniger

Over the past few years, there has been a hint of the $\gamma$-ray excess observed by the Fermi-LAT satellite borne telescope from the regions surrounding the Galactic Centre at an energy range $\sim 1$-$3$ GeV. The nature of this excess…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-03-21 Anirban Biswas

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

Recently the study of anomalous gamma-ray emission in the regions surrounding the galactic center has drawn a lot of attention as it points out that the excess of $\sim 1-3$ GeV gamma-ray in the low latitude is consistent with the emission…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-04-09 Tanushree Basak , Tanmoy Mondal

The reported excess of $\gamma$-rays, emitted from an extended region around the galactic center, has a distribution and rate suggestive of an origin in dark matter (DM) annihilations. The conventional annihilation channels into standard…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-23 Marat Freytsis , Dean J. Robinson , Yuhsin Tsai

There is evidence for an excess of gamma rays with $O({\rm GeV})$ energy coming from the Galactic Center in data from the Fermi Telescope. The spectrum of the excess is well fit by 30 GeV dark matter annihilating into a pair of $b$ quarks…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-03 Seyda Ipek

Dark matter particles annihilating into Standard Model fermions may be able to explain the recent observation of a gamma-ray excess in the direction of the Galactic Center. Recently, a hidden photon model has been proposed to explain this…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-04 Samuel D. McDermott

The long-standing Galactic center gamma-ray excess could be explained by GeV dark matter (DM) annihilation, while the DM interpretation seems in tension with recent joint limits from different astronomical scale observations, such as dwarf…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-07-07 Lian-Bao Jia , Tong Li

We present a classically scale-invariant model with a confining dark sector, which is coupled to the Standard Model through the Higgs portal. The galactic centre gamma ray excess can be explained in this model by collision-induced dark…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-23 Matti Heikinheimo , Christian Spethmann

Tentative evidence for excess GeV-scale gamma rays from the galactic center has been corroborated by several groups, including the Fermi collaboration, on whose data the observation is based. Dark matter annihilation into standard model…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-10-21 James M. Cline , Grace Dupuis , Zuowei Liu , Wei Xue

Stringent constraints from direct detection experiments and the Large Hadron Collider motivate us to consider models in which the dark matter does not directly couple to the Standard Model, but that instead annihilates into hidden sector…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-12-13 Miguel Escudero , Samuel J. Witte , Dan Hooper

The Fermi gamma ray space telescope data have pointed towards an excess of gamma rays with a peak around $1-3$ GeV in the region surrounding the galactic center. This anomalous excess can be described well by a dark matter candidate having…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-05-09 Debasish Borah , Arnab Dasgupta

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
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