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The diffuse galactic EGRET gamma ray data show a clear excess for energies above 1 GeV in comparison with the expectations from conventional galactic models. The excess is seen with the same spectrum in all sky directions, as expected for…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 W. de Boer , M. Herold , C. Sander , V. Zhukov , A. V. Gladyshev , D. I. Kazakov

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

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

Persistent excesses in the spectra of gamma rays from the galactic center and cosmic ray antiprotons can be explained by dark matter of mass $50\sim 65$\,GeV annihilating into $b$ quarks, but this is typically hard to reconcile with direct…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-08-28 James M. Cline , Takashi Toma

The origin of the cosmic gamma-ray background at 1-20 MeV remains a mystery. We show that gamma-ray emission accompanying annihilation of 20 MeV dark matter particles explains most of the observed signal. Our model satisfies all of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Kyungjin Ahn , Eiichiro Komatsu

The cosmic-ray (CR) $e^\pm$ excess observed by AMS-02 can be explained by dark matter (DM) annihilation. However, the DM explanation requires a large annihilation cross section which is strongly disfavored by other observations, such as the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-10-11 Qian-Fei Xiang , Xiao-Jun Bi , Su-Jie Lin , Peng-Fei Yin

We discuss the gamma-ray signal to be expected from dark matter (DM)annihilations at the Galactic Center. To describe the DM distribution in the Galactic halo we base on the Jeans equation for self-gravitating, anisotropic equilibria. In…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-14 A. Lapi , A. Paggi , A. Cavaliere , A. Lionetto , A. Morselli , V. Vitale

The Galactic center $\gamma$-ray excess, detected by the Fermi-LAT, is a very attractive tentative signal from dark matter annihilation. Searching for associated synchrotron emissions can test the dark matter interpretation for this excess.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-05-18 Wen-Qing Guo , Yichao Li , Xiaoyuan Huang , Yin-Zhe Ma , Geoff Beck , Yogesh Chandola , Feng Huang

We describe cosmic gamma-ray and neutrino signals of dark matter annihilation, explaining how the complementarity of these signals provides additional information that, if observable, can enlighten the particle nature of dark matter. This…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-05-30 Rouzbeh Allahverdi , Sheldon Campbell , Bhaskar Dutta

Recent observations of gamma-rays with the Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) in the direction of the inner Galaxy revealed a mysterious GeV excess. Its intensity is significantly above predictions of the standard model of cosmic rays (CRs)…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-08-10 Dmitry O. Chernyshov , Andrei E. Egorov , Vladimir A. Dogiel , Alexei V. Ivlev

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

Although the emission of radiation from dark matter annihilation is expected to be maximized at the Galactic Center, geometric factors and the presence of point-like and diffuse backgrounds make the choice of the angular window size to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Pasquale D. Serpico , Gabrijela Zaharijas

The GeV$-$TeV $\gamma-$ray line signal is the smoking gun signature of the dark matter annihilation or decay. The detection of such a signal is one of the main targets of some space-based telescopes, including Fermi-LAT and the upcoming…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-18 Tong-Suo Lu , Tie-Kuang Dong , Jian Wu

We study the capabilities of the Fermi-LAT instrument on board of the Fermi mission to constrain particle dark matter properties, as annihilation cross section, mass and branching ratio into dominant annihilation channels, with gamma-ray…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-02-22 Nicolas Bernal , Sergio Palomares-Ruiz

Decaying or annihilating dark matter particles could be detected through gamma-ray emission from the species they decay or annihilate into. This is usually done by modelling the flux from specific dark matter-rich objects such as the Milky…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-12-01 Deaglan J. Bartlett , Andrija Kostić , Harry Desmond , Jens Jasche , Guilhem Lavaux

In this work, we propose a novel mechanism for generating gamma rays from the Galactic Center via scattering of cosmic-ray protons off dark matter in the Milky Way halo, in contrast to conventional explanations based on dark matter…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-05-12 Bhaskar Dutta , Debopam Goswami , Jason Kumar , Mudit Rai , Deepak Sathyan

An anomalous gamma-ray excess emission has been found in Fermi Large Area Telescope data covering the centre of the Galaxy. Several theories have been proposed for this `Galactic Centre Excess'. They include self-annihilation of dark matter…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-08-10 Oscar Macias , Chris Gordon , Roland M. Crocker , Brenna Coleman , Dylan Paterson , Shunsaku Horiuchi , Martin Pohl

Dark matter (DM) annihilations have been widely studied as a possible explanation of excess gamma rays from the galactic center seen by Fermi/LAT. However most such models are in conflict with constraints from dwarf spheroidals. Motivated…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-07-22 Jeremie Choquette , James M. Cline , Jonathan M. Cornell

In this article, I summarize and discuss the body of evidence which has accumulated in favor of dark matter in the form of approximately 10 GeV particles. This evidence includes the spectrum and angular distribution of gamma rays from the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-01-09 Dan Hooper

We determine upper limits on the dark matter (DM) self-annihilation cross section for scenarios in which annihilation leads to the production of electron--positron pairs. In the Galactic centre (GC), relativistic electrons and positrons…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-11-20 Roland M. Crocker , Nicole F. Bell , Csaba Balázs , David I. Jones