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The Galactic Center Excess (GCE) is a compelling signature of dark matter annihilation, but its spectral morphology is difficult to reconcile with the traditional paradigm of a single particle species. In this work, we perform a systematic…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-03-19 Farinaldo S. Queiroz , Clarissa Siqueira , Carlos E. Yaguna

We explore models for the GeV Galactic Center Excess (GCE) observed by the Fermi Telescope, focusing on $\chi \chi \rightarrow f \bar f$ annihilation processes in the $Z_3$ NMSSM. We begin by examining the requirements for a simplified…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-10-22 Clifford Cheung , Michele Papucci , David Sanford , Nausheen R. Shah , Kathryn M. Zurek

Recent study of gamma rays originating from the region of galactic centre has confirmed an anomalous $\gamma$-ray excess within the energy range 1-3 GeV. This can be explained as the consequence of pair annihilation of a 31-40 GeV dark…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-08-26 Amit Dutta Banik , Debasish Majumdar

The galactic center excess of gamma ray photons can be naturally explained by light Majorana fermions in combination with a pseudoscalar mediator. The NMSSM provides exactly these ingredients. We show that for neutralinos with a significant…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-01-27 Anja Butter , Tilman Plehn , Michael Rauch , Dirk Zerwas , Sophie Henrot-Versillé , Rémi Lafaye

We make a detailed analysis of the indirect diffuse gamma-ray signals from dark matter annihilation in the Galaxy. We include the prompt emission, as well as the emission from inverse Compton scattering whenever the annihilation products…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2012-11-14 Steve Blanchet , Julien Lavalle

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

We present a framework in which three classes of dark matter number-changing processes can affect both the relic abundance via thermal freeze-out in the early universe and the generation of indirect cosmic-ray signals today. These processes…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-04-27 Francesco D'Eramo , Silvia Manconi , Tommaso Sassi

In Ref.~\cite{Guo:2021rre}, we proposed to replace the final dark matter (DM) particle in the semi-annihilation mode $\rm DM+DM\to antiDM+Higgs~boson$ with its $Z_{N\geq 3}$ companion, thus reducing DM number density without DM-nucleon…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-05-24 Jun Guo , Zhaofeng Kang , Ji-Gang Zhao

We study the multi-wavelength signal induced by pairs annihilations at the Galactic center (GC) of a recently proposed dark matter (DM) candidate. The weakly interacting massive particle (WIMP) candidate, named A_, is the first Kaluza-Klein…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 Marco Regis

We promote the idea of multi-component Dark Matter (DM) to explain results from both direct and indirect detection experiments. In these models as contribution of each DM candidate to relic abundance is summed up to meet WMAP/Planck…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-18 Kamakshya Prasad Modak , Debasish Majumdar , Subhendu Rakshit

Semi-annihilation is a generic feature of dark matter theories with symmetries larger than Z2. We investigate two examples with multi-component dark sectors comprised of an SU(2)L singlet or triplet fermion besides a scalar singlet. These…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-02-17 Yi Cai , Andrew Paul Spray

Lines in the energy spectrum of gamma rays are a fascinating experimental signal, which are often considered "smoking gun" evidence of dark matter annihilation. The current generation of gamma ray observatories are currently closing in on…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-15 C. B. Jackson , Geraldine Servant , Gabe Shaughnessy , Tim M. P. Tait , Marco Taoso

Dark matter (DM) coupled to light mediators has been invoked to resolve the putative discrepancies between collisionless cold DM and galactic structure observations. However, $\gamma$-ray searches and the CMB strongly constrain such…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-06-27 Iason Baldes , Marco Cirelli , Paolo Panci , Kalliopi Petraki , Filippo Sala , Marco Taoso

We have built a lepton-specific next-to-minimal two-Higgs-doublet-portal vector dark matter model. The vector dark matter in the hidden sector does not directly couple to the visible sector, but instead annihilates into the hidden Higgs…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-09-26 Kwei-Chou Yang

We perform a composite likelihood analysis of subdivided regions within the central $26^\circ\times20^\circ$ of the Milky Way, with the aim of characterizing the spectrum of the gamma-ray galactic center excess in regions of varying…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-01-30 Shunsaku Horiuchi , Manoj Kaplinghat , Anna Kwa

We study the interactions of a new spin-1 mediator that connects the Standard Model to dark matter. We constrain its decay channels using monojet and monophoton searches, as well as searches for resonances in dijet, dilepton and diboson…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2012-07-27 Mads T. Frandsen , Felix Kahlhoefer , Anthony Preston , Subir Sarkar , Kai Schmidt-Hoberg

We consider a simple renormalizable model providing a UV completion for dark matter whose interactions with the Standard Model are primarily via the gluons. The model consists of scalar dark matter interacting with scalar colored mediator…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-09-30 Rohini M. Godbole , Gaurav Mendiratta , Tim M. P. Tait

We investigate simplified models of dark matter with scalar mediators at hadron colliders using the final state topology with 2 jets and missing energy. These models can arise in a wide variety of BSM scenarios including the possibility of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-10-14 Valentin V. Khoze , Gunnar Ro , Michael Spannowsky

There has been interest recently on particle physics models that may give rise to sharp gamma ray spectral features from dark matter annihilation. Because dark matter is supposed to be electrically neutral, it is challenging to build weakly…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-16 Federica Giacchino , Laura Lopez-Honorez , Michel H. G. Tytgat

We consider a simple class of models in which the dark matter, X, is coupled to a new gauge boson, phi, with a relatively low mass (m_phi \sim 100 MeV-3 GeV). Neither the dark matter nor the new gauge boson have tree-level couplings to the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-05-30 Dan Hooper , Neal Weiner , Wei Xue