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Over the past few years, there has been a hint of the $\gamma$-ray excess observed by the Fermi-LAT satellite borne telescope from the regions surrounding the Galactic Centre at an energy range $\sim 1$-$3$ GeV. The nature of this excess…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-03-21 Anirban Biswas

An excess in $\gamma$-rays emanating from the galactic centre has recently been observed in the Fermi-LAT data. We investigate the new exciting possibility of fitting the signal spectrum by dark matter annihilating dominantly to a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-05-22 Anibal D. Medina

The recent LHC Run-2 data have shown a possible excess in diphoton events, suggesting the existence of a new resonance $\phi$ with mass $M\sim 750$~GeV. If $\phi$ plays the role of a portal particle connecting the Standard Model and the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-08-31 Xian-Jun Huang , Wei-Hong Zhang , Yu-Feng Zhou

We perform an analysis of the simplified dark matter models in the light of cosmic ray observables by AMS-02 and Fermi-LAT. We assume fermion, scalar or vector dark matter particle with a leptophobic spin-0 mediator that couples only to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-03-14 Tong Li

A gamma-ray excess from the galactic center consistent with line emission around 130 GeV was recently found in the Fermi-LAT data. Although the Fermi-LAT Collaboration has not confirmed its significance, such a signal would be a clear…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-08-29 Takashi Toma

From astronomical observations, we know that dark matter exists and makes up $\sim$25\% of our Universe. Recently the study of anomalous gamma-ray emission in the regions surrounding the galactic center has drawn a lot of attention. It has…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-07-08 Tanmoy Mondal , Tanushree Basak

The diffuse Galactic $\gamma$-rays from EGRET observation shows excesses above 1 GeV in comparison with the expectations from conventional Galactic cosmic ray (CR) propagation model. In the work we try to solve the "GeV excess" problem by…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Xiao-Jun Bi , Juan Zhang , Qiang Yuan , Jian-Li Zhang , HongSheng Zhao

The extended excess toward the Galactic Center (GC) in gamma rays inferred from Fermi-LAT observations has been interpreted as being due to dark matter (DM) annihilation. Here, we perform new likelihood analyses of the GC and show that,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-01-27 Kevork N. Abazajian , Shunsaku Horiuchi , Manoj Kaplinghat , Ryan E. Keeley , Oscar Macias

Recently, it has been shown that electrons and positrons from dark matter (DM) annihilations provide an excellent fit to the Fermi, PAMELA, and HESS data. Using this DM model, which requires an enhancement of the annihilation cross section…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2009-11-20 Anders Pinzke , Christoph Pfrommer , Lars Bergstrom

Light fermionic/scalar dark matter (DM) (m_DM ~ 8 GeV) neutral under the standard model can be responsible for the CDMS and CoGeNT signals, and the Fermi-LAT gamma-ray excesses. In order to explain them in a relatively simple framework, we…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-17 Bumseok Kyae , Jong-Chul Park

If sub-GeV Dark matter(DM) annihilates to the charged particles such as $e^+ e^-$, $\mu^+ \mu^-$, or $\pi^+ \pi^-$, it generates an additional source of electrons and positrons in the cosmic ray (CR) population within our Milky Way. During…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-12-10 Guansen Wang , Bing-Yu Su , Lei Zu , Lei Feng

Recent reports of a gamma-ray line feature at ~130 GeV in data from the Fermi Gamma-Ray Space Telescope have generated a great deal of interest in models in which dark matter particles annihilate with a sizable cross section to final states…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-05-30 Matthew R. Buckley , Dan Hooper

Motivated by the complex gamma-ray spectrum of the Galactic Center source now measured over five decades in energy, we revisit the issue of the role of dark matter annihilations in this interesting region. We reassess whether the emission…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-05-30 Alexander V. Belikov , Gabrijela Zaharijas , Joseph Silk

The possible gamma-ray excess in the inner Galaxy and the Galactic center (GC) suggested by Fermi-LAT observations has triggered a large number of studies. It has been interpreted as a variety of different phenomena such as a signal from…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-22 Francesca Calore , Ilias Cholis , Christoph Weniger

Hidden sector dark matter (DM) models with local dark gauge symmetry make a natural playground for the $\gamma$-ray excess from the galactic center (GC). In this paper, we first discuss in detail the GC $\gamma$-ray excess in scalar dark…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-01-20 P. Ko , Yong Tang

The possibility of explaining the positron and electron excess recently found by the PAMELA and ATIC collaborations in terms of dark matter (DM) annihilation has attracted considerable attention. Models surviving bounds from, e.g,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-04-15 Lars Bergstrom , Gianfranco Bertone , Torsten Bringmann , Joakim Edsjo , Marco Taoso

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

We propose a minimal UV-complete model for kinematically forbidden Dark Matter (DM) leading to a sub-GeV thermal relic. Our crucial realization is that the two-Higgs-doublet model can provide a light mediator through which the DM can…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-08-29 Johannes Herms , Sudip Jana , Vishnu P. K. , Shaikh Saad

The cosmic electron energy spectrum recently observed by the DAMPE experiment exhibits two interesting features, including a break around 0.9 TeV and a sharp resonance near 1.4 TeV. In this analysis, we propose a dark matter explanation to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-10-12 Xuewen Liu , Zuowei Liu , Yushan Su

The correlation between Higgs-like scalars and light dark matter is an interesting topic, especially now that a $125 GeV$ Higgs was discovered and dark matter (DM) searches got negative results. The $95 GeV$ excess reported by the CMS…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-01-01 Weichao Li , Haoxue Qiao , Kun Wang , Jingya Zhu