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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

Recent study of gamma rays originating from the region of galactic centre has confirmed an anomalous $\gamma$-ray excess within the energy range 1-3 GeV. This can be explained as the consequence of pair annihilation of a 31-40 GeV dark…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-08-26 Amit Dutta Banik , Debasish Majumdar

It has been proposed that a recent outburst of cosmic-ray electrons could account for the excess of GeV-scale gamma rays observed from the region surrounding the Galactic Center. After studying this possibility in some detail, we identify…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-12-09 Ilias Cholis , Carmelo Evoli , Francesca Calore , Tim Linden , Christoph Weniger , Dan Hooper

An excess of gamma rays at GeV energies has been detected in the Fermi-LAT data. This signal comes from a narrow region around the Galactic Center and has been interpreted as possible evidence for light (30 GeV) dark matter particles.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-01-30 Thomas Lacroix

Many models currently exist which attempt to interpret the excess of gamma rays emanating from the Galactic Center in terms of annihilating or decaying dark matter. These models typically exhibit a variety of complicated cascade mechanisms…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-04-11 Kimberly K. Boddy , Keith R. Dienes , Doojin Kim , Jason Kumar , Jong-Chul Park , Brooks Thomas

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

Inspired by the excess of gamma rays from the Galactic Center, we confront a number of simplified dark matter models with experimental data. Assuming a single dark matter particle coupled to standard matter via a spin-0 mediator, we compare…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-10-01 Csaba Balázs , Tong Li

We construct a simple U(1) hidden sector model of metastable dark matter that could explain excess 511 keV gamma rays from the galactic center as observed by INTEGRAL, through inelastic scattering of dark matter followed by its decay.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-04 James M. Cline , Andrew R. Frey

In this letter, we consider a class of scenarios in which the dark matter is part of a heavy hidden sector that is thermally decoupled from the Standard Model in the early universe. The dark matter freezes-out by annihilating to a lighter,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-07-06 Asher Berlin , Dan Hooper , Gordan Krnjaic

The Fermi Large Area Telescope data appear to have an excess of gamma rays from the inner 150 pc of the Galactic Center (GC). The main explanations proposed for this are: an unresolved population of millisecond pulsars (MSPs), dark matter…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-10-30 Chris Gordon , Oscar Macias

We propose a mechanism of elementary thermal dark matter with mass up to $10^{14}$ GeV, within a standard cosmological history, whose relic abundance is determined solely by its interactions with the Standard Model, without violating the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-11-13 Hyungjin Kim , Eric Kuflik

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 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

We consider the possibility that along the thermal history of the Universe, dark matter (DM) would have been created from Standard Model particles, either through a kinetic mixing portal to an extra U(1) gauge field, or through the Higgs…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-03 Xiaoyong Chu , Thomas Hambye , Michel H. G. Tytgat

The observations of high energy $\gamma$-ray emission from the Galactic center (GC) by HESS, and recently by Fermi, suggest the cosmic ray acceleration in the GC and possibly around the supermassive black hole. In this work we propose a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-09-16 Yi-Qing Guo , Qiang Yuan , Cheng Liu , Ai-Feng Li

We revisit a model of electroweak baryogenesis that includes a dark matter candidate, and sequesters the new CP violation required to produce the baryon asymmetry in a dark sector. The model can explain the baryon asymmetry, dark matter…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-09-04 Jean-Samuel Roux , James M. Cline

We propose a novel mechanism enabling us to have a continuum bump as a signature of gamma-ray excess in indirect detection experiments of dark matter (DM), postulating a generic dark sector having (at least) two DM candidates. With the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-02-25 Doojin Kim , Jong-Chul Park

The nature of the Fermi gamma-ray Galactic Center Excess (GCE) has remained a persistent mystery for over a decade. Although the excess is broadly compatible with emission expected due to dark matter annihilation, an explanation in terms of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-03-29 Siddharth Mishra-Sharma , Kyle Cranmer

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

The Galactic Center Excess (GCE) in GeV gamma rays has been debated for over a decade, with the possibility that it might be due to dark matter annihilation or undetected point sources such as millisecond pulsars (MSPs). This study…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-06-14 Sascha Caron , Christopher Eckner , Luc Hendriks , Guðlaugur Jóhannesson , Roberto Ruiz de Austri , Gabrijela Zaharijas