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In this article, we focus on a new scalar $\phi$ mediated scalar/vectorial WIMPs (weakly interacting massive particles) with $\phi$'s mass slightly below the WIMP mass. To explain the Galactic center 1 - 3 GeV gamma-ray excess, here we…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-12-07 Lian-Bao Jia

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

The Sun represents a promising target for indirect dark matter searches, as dark matter particles from the Galactic halo can be gravitationally trapped in its core or in external orbits, and their annihilations can lead to final states with…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-02-22 D. Serini , F. Loparco , M. N. Mazziotta , S. De Gaetano , L. Di Venere , F. Gargano , L. Lorusso , G. Panzarini , R. Pillera

Many dark matter models involving weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs) feature new, relatively light pseudoscalars that mediate dark matter pair annihilation into Standard Model fermions. In particular, simple models of this type…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-23 Jonathan Kozaczuk , Travis A. W. Martin

Dark matter particles annihilating into Standard Model fermions may be able to explain the recent observation of a gamma-ray excess in the direction of the Galactic Center. Recently, a hidden photon model has been proposed to explain this…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-04 Samuel D. McDermott

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

Recently, Daylan et al. (2014) show that the GeV gamma-ray excess signal from the central Milky Way can be explained by the annihilation of $\sim 40$ GeV dark matter through $b\bar{b}$ channel. Based on the morphology of the gamma-ray flux,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-10-12 Man Ho Chan

Employing Fermi-LAT gamma ray observations, several independent groups have found excess extended gamma ray emission at the Galactic center (GC). Both, annihilating dark matter (DM) or a population of $\sim 10^3$ unresolved millisecond…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-12-12 Chris Gordon , Oscar Macias

We show that in the scenario where dark matter (DM) particles annihilate through light mediators, the energy spectra of the final state cosmic-ray particles depend strongly on the mediator mass. For final state antiprotons, a spectrum with…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-04-05 Xian-Jun Huang , Chun-Cheng Wei , Yue-Liang Wu , Wei-Hong Zhang , Yu-Feng Zhou

We examine the status of benchmark simplified dark matter models that have been proposed to explain the GeV gamma-ray Galactic Center excess. We constrain the available parameter space using updated observations from indirect detection,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-05-25 Yongao Hu , Cari Cesarotti , Tracy R. Slatyer

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 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

It has been recently pointed out that the excess of the gamma ray spectrum in the Fermi Bubbles at low latitude can be well explained by the annihilation of dark matter particles. The best-fit candidate corresponds to the annihilation of a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-17 Nobuchika Okada , Osamu Seto

In light of the observed Galactic center gamma-ray excess, we investigate a simplified model, for which the scalar dark matter interacts with quarks through a pseudoscalar mediator. The viable regions of the parameter space, that can also…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-07-25 Kwei-Chou Yang

We propose to investigate a secluded WIMP dark matter model consisting of neutral fermions as the dark matter candidate and a Proca-Wentzel (PW) field as a mediator. In the model that we consider here, dark matter WIMPs interact with…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-12-09 E. C. F. S. Fortes , V. Pleitez , F. W. Stecker

Recently, the HESS telescope has observed a gamma-ray spectrum from the galactic center extending to at least $\sim$10 TeV. Although it has been suggested that this could be the product of annihilating dark matter particles, the candidates…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-10 Dan Hooper , John March-Russell

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

Sterile neutrinos could provide a link between the Standard Model particles and a dark sector, besides generating active neutrino masses via the seesaw mechanism type I. We show that, if dark matter annihilation into sterile neutrinos…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-12-19 Miguel G. Folgado , Germán A. Gómez-Vargas , Nuria Rius , Roberto Ruiz de Austri

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

We analyse the excess in the $\gamma$-ray emission from the center of our galaxy observed by Fermi-LAT in terms of dark matter annihilation within the scalar Higgs portal model. In particular, we include the astrophysical uncertainties from…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-06-29 Alessandro Cuoco , Benedikt Eiteneuer , Jan Heisig , Michael Krämer