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In the indirect detection of dark matter through its annihilation products, the signals depend on the square of the dark matter density, making precise knowledge of the distribution of dark matter in the Universe critical for robust…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Hasan Yuksel , Shunsaku Horiuchi , John F. Beacom , Shin'ichiro Ando

Numerous particle models for the cosmological dark matter feature a pair-annihilation rate that scales with powers of the relative velocity between the annihilating particles. As a result, the annihilation rate in the central regions of a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-12-15 Nolan Smyth , Gabriela Huckabee , Stefano Profumo

Cosmic rays are an important tool to study dark matter annihilation in our Galaxy. Recently, a possible hint for dark matter annihilation was found in the antiproton spectrum measured by AMS-02, even though the result might be affected by…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-05-23 Michael Korsmeier , Fiorenza Donato , Nicolao Fornengo

We explore the relationship between astrophysical gamma-ray signals and LHC signatures for a class of phenomenologically successful secluded dark matter models, motivated by recent evidence for a ~130 GeV gamma-ray line. We consider in…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-08-20 Joachim Kopp , Ethan T. Neil , Reinard Primulando , Jure Zupan

A strongly self-interacting component of asymmetric dark matter can collapse and form compact objects, provided there is an efficient mechanism of energy evacuation. If the dark matter quantum number is not completely conserved but it is…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-03-11 Chris Kouvaris , Dimitris Zavitsanos

Dark matter annihilation in Galactic substructure will produce diffuse gamma-ray emission of remarkably constant intensity across the sky, making it difficult to disentangle this Galactic dark matter signal from the extragalactic gamma-ray…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2010-04-15 Jennifer M. Siegal-Gaskins , Vasiliki Pavlidou

Gamma-rays induced by annihilation or decay of dark matter can be its smoking gun signature. In particular, gamma-rays generated by internal bremsstrahlung of Majorana and real scalar dark matter is promising since it can be a leading…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-09-23 Hiroshi Okada , Takashi Toma

The dark matter halo of the Milky Way is predicted to contain a very large number of smaller subhalos. As a result of the dark matter annihilations taking place within such objects, the most nearby and massive subhalos could appear as…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-01-22 Asher Berlin , Dan Hooper

The adiabatic growth of a black hole (BH) may enhance the dark matter (DM) density surrounding it, causing a spike in the DM density profile. The spike around the supermassive BH at the center of the Milky Way may lead to a dramatic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-03-16 Tian-Ci Liu , Ji-Gui Cheng , Yun-Feng Liang , En-Wei Liang

Dark matter annihilation into photons in our galaxy would constitute an exciting indirect signal of its existence, as underscored by tentative evidence for 130 GeV dark matter in Fermi/LAT data. Models that give a large annihilation cross…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-11-11 James M. Cline , Grace Dupuis , Zuowei Liu

The search for a particle dark matter signal in terms of radiation produced by dark matter annihilation or decay has to cope with the extreme faintness of the predicted signal and the presence of masking astrophysical backgrounds. It has…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-11-11 S. Arcari , E. Pinetti , N. Fornengo

Dark matter is the dominant form of matter in the universe, but its nature is unknown. It is plausibly an elementary particle, perhaps the lightest supersymmetric partner of known particle species. In this case, annihilation of dark matter…

We discuss the possibility to observe the products of dark matter annihilation that was going on in the early Universe. Of all the particles that could be generated by this process we consider only photons, as they are both uncharged and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-08 Anton N. Baushev

The existing and upcoming multiwavelength data from the Galactic Center suggest a comparative study in order to propose or rule out possible models which would explain the observations. In this paper we consider the X-ray synchrotron and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Lars Bergstrom , Malcolm Fairbairn , Lidia Pieri

A possible hint of dark matter annihilation has been found in Cuoco, Korsmeier and Kr\"amer (2017) from an analysis of recent cosmic-ray antiproton data from AMS-02 and taking into account cosmic-ray propagation uncertainties by fitting at…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-11-07 Alessandro Cuoco , Jan Heisig , Michael Korsmeier , Michael Krämer

Based on tentative evidence for a peak in the Fermi gamma-ray spectrum originating from near the center of the galaxy, it has been suggested that dark matter of mass ~130 GeV is annihilating directly into photons with a cross section ~24…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-05-30 James M. Cline

We search for spectral features in Fermi-LAT gamma-rays coming from regions corresponding to eighteen brightest nearby galaxy clusters determined by the magnitude of their signal line-of-site integrals. We observe a double peak-like excess…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-05 Andi Hektor , Martti Raidal , Elmo Tempel

There is evidence for an excess in cosmic-ray electrons at about 500 GeV energy, that may be related to dark-matter annihilation. I have calculated the expected electron contributions from a pulsar and from Kaluza-Klein dark matter, based…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-04-30 Martin Pohl

A distinct signature for dark matter in the form of weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs) would be the detection of a monochromatic spectral line in the gamma-ray sky. The Fermi-LAT collaboration has searched for such a line in the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-14 Michael Gustafsson

Recent measurements of cosmic-ray electron and positron fluxes by PAMELA and ATIC experiments may indicate the existence of annihilating dark matter with large annihilation cross section. We show that the dark matter annihilation in the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-04-21 Junji Hisano , Masahiro Kawasaki , Kazunori Kohri , Takeo Moroi , Kazunori Nakayama