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We explore the explanation of the Fermi Galactic Center Excess (GCE) in the Next-to-Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model. We systematically consider various experimental constraints including the Dark Matter (DM) relic density, DM direct…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-03-11 Junjie Cao , Liangliang Shang , Peiwen Wu , Jin Min Yang , Yang Zhang

In the Next-to-Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model (NMSSM), all singlet-dominated particles including one neutralino, one CP-odd Higgs boson and one CP-even Higgs boson can be simultaneously lighter than about 100 GeV. Consequently, dark…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-26 Junjie Cao , Liangliang Shang , Peiwen Wu , Jin Min Yang , Yang Zhang

The Fermi Collaboration has recently updated their analysis of gamma rays from the center of the Galaxy. They reconfirm the presence of an unexplained emission feature which is most prominent in the region of $1-10$ GeV, known as the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-01-11 Abraham Achterberg , Melissa van Beekveld , Sascha Caron , Germán A. Gómez-Vargas , Luc Hendriks , Roberto Ruiz de Austri

The Galactic Center Excess (GCE) is explained in the framework of the Next-to-Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model (NMSSM) with a $Z_3$ discrete symmetry. We show that a resonant CP-odd Higgs boson with mass twice that of the Dark Matter…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-05-13 Jun Guo , Jinmian Li , Tianjun Li , Anthony G. Williams

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

The apparent excess of gamma rays in an extended region in the direction of the galactic center has a spatial distribution and amplitude that are suggestive of dark matter annihilations. If this excess is indeed due to dark matter…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-11-19 Adam Martin , Jessie Shelton , James Unwin

The minimal supersymmetric setup offers a comprehensive framework to interpret the Fermi LAT Galactic center excess. Taking into account experimental, theoretical, and astrophysical uncertainties we can identify valid parameter regions…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-09-06 Anja Butter , Simona Murgia , Tilman Plehn , Tim M. P. Tait

It has recently been shown that dark-matter annihilation to bottom quarks provides a good fit to the galactic-center gamma-ray excess identified in the Fermi-LAT data. In the favored dark matter mass range $m\sim 30-40$ GeV, achieving the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-09-10 Eder Izaguirre , Gordan Krnjaic , Brian Shuve

We examine the possibility that the dark matter (DM) interpretation of the GeV scale Fermi gamma-ray excess at the Galactic Center can be realized in a specific framework - secluded singlet fermionic dark matter model with small mixing…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-06-29 Yeong Gyun Kim , Kang Young Lee , Chan Beom Park , Seodong Shin

Observations with the Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) indicate an excess in gamma rays originating from the center of our Galaxy. A possible explanation for this excess is the annihilation of Dark Matter particles. We have investigated the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-08-19 Abraham Achterberg , Simone Amoroso , Sascha Caron , Luc Hendriks , Roberto Ruiz de Austri , Christoph Weniger

An excess of $\gamma$ rays in the data measured by the Fermi Large Area Telescope in the direction of the Galactic center has been reported in several publications. This excess, labeled as the Galactic center excess (GCE), is detected…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-06-09 Mattia Di Mauro , Martin Wolfgang Winkler

The gamma-ray excess observed from the Galactic Center can be interpreted as dark matter particles annihilating into Standard Model fermions with a cross section near that expected for a thermal relic. Although many particle physics models…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-08-19 Asher Berlin , Pierre Gratia , Dan Hooper , Samuel D. McDermott

There is evidence for an excess of gamma rays with $O({\rm GeV})$ energy coming from the Galactic Center in data from the Fermi Telescope. The spectrum of the excess is well fit by 30 GeV dark matter annihilating into a pair of $b$ quarks…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-03 Seyda Ipek

Tentative evidence for excess GeV-scale gamma rays from the galactic center has been corroborated by several groups, including the Fermi collaboration, on whose data the observation is based. Dark matter annihilation into standard model…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-10-21 James M. Cline , Grace Dupuis , Zuowei Liu , Wei Xue

The region around the Galactic center (GC) is now well established to be brighter at energies of a few GeV than expected from conventional models of diffuse gamma-ray emission and catalogs of known gamma-ray sources. We study the GeV excess…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-06-27 LAT Collaboration

We compare the surface brightness profile and morphology of the Galactic Centre Excess (GCE) identified in wide-angle $\gamma$-ray maps from the Fermi-Large Area Telescope to dark matter annihilation predictions derived from high-resolution…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-02-09 Robert J. J. Grand , Simon D. M. White

Simple models of weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs) predict dark matter annihilations into pairs of electroweak gauge bosons, Higgses or tops, which through their subsequent cascade decays produce a spectrum of gamma rays.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-05-20 Prateek Agrawal , Brian Batell , Patrick J. Fox , Roni Harnik

The center of the Milky Way is predicted to be the brightest region of gamma-rays generated by self-annihilating dark matter particles. Excess emission about the Galactic center above predictions made for standard astrophysical processes…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-05-10 Christopher Karwin , Simona Murgia , Tim M. P. Tait , Troy A. Porter , Philip Tanedo

The Galactic center gamma-ray excess (GCE) is a long-standing unsolved problem. One of candidate solutions, the dark matter (DM) annihilation, has been recently tested with other astrophysical observations, such as AMS-02 electron-positron…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-08-10 Murat Abdughani , Yi-Zhong Fan , Chih-Ting Lu , Tian-Peng Tang , Yue-Lin Sming Tsai

We investigate the possibility of the Z3 scalar singlet model explaining the Fermi galactic centre excess. We find a good fit to the measured spectral excess in the region where the dark matter mass is comparable to the Higgs and the Higgs…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-07-20 Yi Cai , Andrew Paul Spray
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