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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

Cross-correlating the gamma-ray background with local galaxy catalogs potentially gives stringent constraints on dark matter annihilation. We provide updated theoretical estimates of sensitivities to the annihilation cross section from…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-10-27 Shin'ichiro Ando

Recently, a tentative 130 GeV $\gamma$-ray line signal was identified by quite a few groups. If correct it would constitute a ``smoking gun'' for dark matter annihilations. Interestingly, the spectra of the cosmic ray electrons detected by…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-05 Lei Feng , Qiang Yuan , Xiang Li , Yi-Zhong Fan

The extragalactic cosmic gamma-ray background (CGB) is an interesting channel to look for signatures of dark matter annihilation. In particular, besides the imprint in the energy spectrum, peculiar anisotropy patterns are expected compared…

Recently, several groups identified a tentative $\gamma$-ray line signal with energy $\sim 130$ GeV in the central Galaxy from the Fermi-LAT data. %The morphology study shows that the signal is consistent with dark matter %annihilation, but…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-08-24 Rui-Zhi Yang , Qiang Yuan , Lei Feng , Yi-Zhong Fan , Jin Chang

Recent evidence for one or more gamma-ray lines at ~ 130 GeV in the Fermi-LAT data from the Galactic Center has been interpreted as a hint for dark matter annihilation to Z{\gamma} or H{\gamma} with an annihilation cross section, <\sigma v>…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-02-12 Ranjan Laha , Kenny Chun Yu Ng , Basudeb Dasgupta , Shunsaku Horiuchi

We consider the gamma-ray spectrum from neutralino dark matter annihilations and show that internal bremsstrahlung of W pair final states gives a previously neglected source of photons at energies near the mass of the neutralino. For masses…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-11 Lars Bergstrom , Torsten Bringmann , Martin Eriksson , Michael Gustafsson

In this letter, we study the possibility that Kaluza-Klein dark matter in a model with one universal extra dimension is responsible for the recent observations of the PAMELA and ATIC experiments. In this model, the dark matter particles…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-04-21 Dan Hooper , Kathryn Zurek

Weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs) remain a prime candidate for the cosmological dark matter (DM), even in the absence of current collider signals that would unambiguously point to new physics below the TeV scale. The…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2012-12-17 Torsten Bringmann , Christoph Weniger

Extra dimensions offer new ways to address long-standing problems in beyond the standard model particle physics. In some classes of extra-dimensional models, the lightest Kaluza-Klein particle is a viable dark matter candidate. In this…

We consider gamma-ray signals of dark matter annihilation in extragalactic halos in the case where dark matter annihilates from a $p$-wave or $d$-wave state. In these scenarios, signals from extragalactic halos are enhanced relative to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-09-19 Eric J. Baxter , Jason Kumar , Aleczander D. Paul , Jack Runburg

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

We show that there exists only a quite limited number of higher dimensional operators which can naturally lead to a slow decay of dark matter particles into monochromatic photons. As each of these operators inevitably induces decays into…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-10-20 Michael Gustafsson , Thomas Hambye , Tiziana Scarna

Recent claims of a line in the Fermi-LAT photon spectrum at 130 GeV are suggestive of dark matter annihilation in the galactic center and other dark matter-dominated regions. If the Fermi feature is indeed due to dark matter annihilation,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-11 Yang Bai , Jessie Shelton

The annihilation of dark matter (DM) in the Galaxy could produce specific imprints on the spectra of antimatter species in Galactic cosmic rays, which could be detected by upcoming experiments such as PAMELA and AMS02. Recent studies show…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 P. Brun , G. Bertone , J. Lavalle , P. Salati , R. Taillet

We interpret recent IceCube results on searches for dark matter accumulated in the sun in terms of the lightest Kaluza-Klein excitation (assumed here to be the Kaluza-Klein photon, $B^1$), obtaining improved limits on the annihilation rate…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-02-18 M. Colom i Bernadich , C. Pérez de los Heros

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

Recent observations indicating the existence of a monochromatic gamma-ray line with energy ~130 GeV in the Fermi-LAT data have attracted great interest due to the possibility that the line feature stems from the annihilation of dark matter…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-08-28 Eric Carlson , Tim Linden , Stefano Profumo , Christoph Weniger

Atmospheric Cerenkov Telescopes, including HESS and MAGIC, have detected a spectrum of gamma-rays from the galactic center region which extends from $\sim$200 GeV or lower, to at least $\sim$10 TeV. Although the source of this radiation is…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Gabrijela Zaharijas , Dan Hooper

I discuss the prospects for detecting the dark matter via the proper motion of sub-solar mass dark matter halos in the vicinity of the solar neighbourhood. Microhalos that survive tidal disruption could exhibit proper motion of order few…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Savvas M. Koushiappas
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