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A number of new balloon or space-based $\gamma$-ray observatories have been proposed to close a "MeV gap" in sensitivity to $\gamma$ rays in the MeV-GeV energy band. One aspect of the science case for these instruments is their ability to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-04-29 Kayla E. O'Donnell , Tracy R. Slatyer

We consider the prospects for the indirect detection of low mass dark matter which couples dominantly to quarks. If the center of mass energy is below about 280 MeV, the kinematically allowed final states will be dominated by photons and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-07-27 Kimberly K. Boddy , Jason Kumar

We investigate the sensitivities of upcoming MeV gamma-ray telescopes to sterile neutrino dark matter in the mass range $(0.2-100)\,{\rm MeV}$. Sterile neutrinos in this regime can produce observable photon signals through radiative…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-04-22 Shivam Gola , Akash Kumar Saha , Manibrata Sen

The indirect detection of dark matter particles with mass below the GeV scale has recently received significant attention. Future space-borne gamma-ray telescopes, including All-Sky-ASTROGAM, AMEGO, and GECCO, will probe the MeV gamma-ray…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-08-25 Adam Coogan , Logan Morrison , Stefano Profumo

Galactic weak-scale Dark Matter (DM) particles annihilating into lepton-rich channels not only produce gamma-rays via prompt radiation but also generate abundant energetic electrons and positrons, which subsequently emit through…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-10-09 Marco Cirelli , Arpan Kar

In this contribution I review the present status and discuss some prospects for indirect detection of dark matter with gamma-rays. Thanks to the Fermi Large Area Telescope, searches in gamma-rays have reached sensitivities that allow to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 Jan Conrad

The self-annihilation of dark matter particles with mass in the MeV range can produce gamma rays via prompt or secondary radiation. The annihilation rate for such light dark matter particles is however tightly constrained by cosmic…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-10-04 Alma X. Gonzalez-Morales , Stefano Profumo , Javier Reynoso-Córdova

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

We describe an approach to detect dark matter and other invisible particles with mass below a GeV, exploiting missing energy-momentum measurements and other kinematic features of fixed-target production. In the case of an invisibly decaying…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-05-27 Eder Izaguirre , Gordan Krnjaic , Philip Schuster , Natalia Toro

Exploring the realm of Dark Matter research, Light DM, which has a mass in the range of 1 MeV to 1 GeV, is a fascinating topic both theoretically and experimentally. We assume that the light dark matter is composed of complex scalars and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-04-05 Jun Guo , Lei Wu , Bin Zhu

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

Astrophysical searches for gamma rays are one of the main strategies to probe the annihilation or decay of dark matter particles. We present a new class of distinct sub-GeV spectral features that generically appear in kinematical situations…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-02-20 Torsten Bringmann , Ahmad Galea , Andrzej Hryczuk , Christoph Weniger

The existence of dark matter is undisputed, while the nature of it is still unknown. Explaining dark matter with the existence of a new unobserved particle is among the most promising possible solutions. Recently dark matter candidates in…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2017-12-12 Alexander Baehr , Holger Kluck , Jelena Ninkovic , Jochen Schieck , Johannes Treis

Direct detection strategies are proposed for dark matter particles with MeV to GeV mass. In this largely unexplored mass range, dark matter scattering with electrons can cause single-electron ionization signals, which are detectable with…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2012-06-01 Rouven Essig , Jeremy Mardon , Tomer Volansky

GeV-scale dark matter is an increasingly attractive target for direct detection, indirect detection, and collider searches. Especially for masses in the MeV to GeV range, indirect detection is expected to give a leading constraint. In that…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-02-16 Peter Reimitz

We discuss the prospects for indirect detection of dark matter (DM) with the Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA), a future ground-based gamma-ray observatory that will be sensitive to gamma rays in the energy range from a few tens of GeV to 100…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-09-24 Matthew Wood , Jim Buckley , Seth Digel , Stefan Funk , Daniel Nieto , Miguel A. Sanchez-Conde

Light Dark Matter (DM), defined here as having a mass between 1 MeV and about 1 GeV, is an interesting possibility both theoretically and phenomenologically, at one of the frontiers of current progress in the field of DM searches. Its…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-07-06 Marco Cirelli , Nicolao Fornengo , Bradley J. Kavanagh , Elena Pinetti

Over the past decade, extensive studies have been undertaken to search for photon signals from dark matter annihilation or decay for dark matter particle masses above $\sim1$ GeV. However, due to the lacking sensitivity of current…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-05-09 Richard Bartels , Daniele Gaggero , Christoph Weniger

Gamma-ray observations of Milky Way dwarf galaxies have been used to place stringent constraints on the dark matter's annihilation cross section. In this paper, we evaluate the sensitivity of the proposed Advanced Particle-astrophysics…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-08-31 Fei Xu , Dan Hooper

We present updated constraints on 'light' Dark Matter (DM) particles with masses between 1 MeV and 5 GeV. In this range, we can expect DM-produced $e^\pm$ pairs to up-scatter low-energy ambient photons in the Milky Way via the Inverse…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-01-17 Jordan Koechler
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