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Cosmic-ray positrons have long been considered a powerful probe of dark matter annihilation. In particular, myriad studies of the unexpected rise in the positron fraction have debated its dark matter or pulsar origins. In this paper, we…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-01-07 Isabelle John , Tim Linden

We try to interpret the recently updated measurement of the cosmic ray electron (CRE) spectrum observed by Fermi-LAT, together with PAMELA data on positron fraction, in a single-component scenario adopting different propagation setups; we…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-03-02 Giuseppe Di Bernardo , Carmelo Evoli , Daniele Gaggero , Dario Grasso , Luca Maccione , Mario N. Mazziotta

Annihilation of light dark matter of $m_{\rm DM} \approx (10-40)$ GeV into the Standard Model fermions has been suggested as a possible origin of the gamma-ray excess at GeV energies in the Fermi-LAT data. In this paper, we examine possible…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-19 Kyoungchul Kong , Jong-Chul Park

The Fermi Large Area Telescope observed an excess in gamma ray emission spectrum coming from the center of the Milky Way galaxy. This data reveals that a light Dark Matter (DM) candidate of mass in the range 31-40 GeV, dominantly decaying…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-19 Dilip Kumar Ghosh , Subhadeep Mondal , Ipsita Saha

The direct measurements of the cosmic electron-positron spectrum around 1 TeV made by DAMPE have induced many theoretical speculations about possible excesses in the data above the standard astrophysical predictions that might have the dark…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-07-01 Konstantin Belotsky , Airat Kamaletdinov , Maxim Laletin , Maxim Solovyov

We infer dark matter properties from gamma ray residuals extracted using eight different interstellar emission scenarios proposed by the Fermi-LAT Collaboration to explain the Galactic Center gamma ray excess. Adopting the most plausible…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-03-08 Csaba Balázs , Tong Li

We analyze the recently published Fermi-LAT diffuse gamma-ray measurements in the context of leptonically annihilating or decaying dark matter (DM) with the aim to explain simultaneously the isotropic diffuse gamma-ray and the PAMELA, Fermi…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-11-20 Gert Hütsi , Andi Hektor , Martti Raidal

An excess $\gamma$-ray signal toward the outer halo of M31 has recently been reported. Although other explanations are plausible, the possibility that it arises from dark matter (DM) is valid. In this work we interpret the excess in the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-02-17 Chris Karwin , Simona Murgia , Igor Moskalenko , Sean Fillingham , Anne-Katherine Burns , Max Fieg

The Dark Matter Particle Explorer (DAMPE) satellite detector announced its first result for measuring the cosmic-ray electron/positron (CRE) energy spectrum up to 4.6TeV, including a tentative peak-like event excess at (1.3-1.5)TeV. In this…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-04-10 Shao-Feng Ge , Hong-Jian He , Yu-Chen Wang

The singlet-doublet fermion dark matter model (SDFDM) provides a good DM candidate as well as the possibility of generating neutrino masses radiatively. The search and identification of DM requires the combined effort of both indirect and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-03-30 Shunsaku Horiuchi , Oscar Macias , Diego Restrepo , Andres Rivera , Hamish Silverwood , Oscar Zapata

It is shown that a Weakly Interacting Massive dark matter Particle (WIMP) interpretation for the positron excess observed in a variety of experiments, HEAT, PAMELA, and AMS-02, is highly constrained by the Fermi/LAT observations of dwarf…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-04-06 Alejandro Lopez , Christopher Savage , Douglas Spolyar , Douglas Q. Adams

The extended excess toward the Galactic Center (GC) in gamma rays inferred from Fermi-LAT observations has been interpreted as being due to dark matter (DM) annihilation. Here, we perform new likelihood analyses of the GC and show that,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-01-27 Kevork N. Abazajian , Shunsaku Horiuchi , Manoj Kaplinghat , Ryan E. Keeley , Oscar Macias

Precise measurements of spectra of cosmic ray electrons and positrons can effectively probe the nature of dark matter (DM) particles. In a class of models where DM particles initially annihilate into a pair of intermediate particles which…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-09-26 Lei Zu , Cun Zhang , Lei Feng , Qiang Yuan , Yi-Zhong Fan

We consider the Z5 two-component dark matter model within the framework of the Type-II seesaw mechanism. Due to the new annihilation processes related to triplets, the light component cannot necessarily be dominant in the dark matter relic…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-11-19 XinXin Qi , Hao Sun

Antimatter cosmic-rays are used to probe new phenomena in physics, including dark matter annihilation. We use the cosmic-ray positron fraction spectrum by the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer, to search for such an annihilation signal in the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-01-18 Iason Krommydas , Ilias Cholis

The rise of the cosmic ray positron fraction with energy, as first observed with high confidence by PAMELA, implies that a large flux of high energy positrons has been recently (or is being currently) injected into the local volume of the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-08-13 Ilias Cholis , Dan Hooper

The excesses of the cosmic positron fraction recently measured by PAMELA and the electron spectra by ATIC, PPB-BETS, Fermi and H.E.S.S. indicate the existence of primary electron and positron sources. The possible explanations include dark…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-09-02 Juan Zhang , Xiao-jun Bi , Jia Liu , Si-Ming Liu , Peng-fei Yin , Qiang Yuan , Shou-hua Zhu

Astrophysical and cosmological observations do not require the dark matter particles to be absolutely stable. If they are indeed unstable, their decay into positrons might occur at a sufficiently large rate to allow the indirect detection…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-05-05 Alejandro Ibarra , David Tran

The first data from the LHC Run-2 have shown a possible excess in diphoton events with invariant mass $\sim 750$ GeV, suggesting the existence of a new resonance which may decay dominantly into dark matter (DM) particles. We show in a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-06-15 Xian-Jun Huang , Wei-Hong Zhang , Yu-Feng Zhou

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
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