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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

An analysis of the Fermi gamma ray space telescope data has recently revealed a resolved gamma-ray feature close to the galactic center which is consistent with monochromatic photons at an energy of about 130 GeV. If interpreted in terms of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-05-17 Masaki Asano , Torsten Bringmann , Gunter Sigl , Martin Vollmann

In hidden sector models, dark matter does not directly couple to the particle content of the Standard Model, strongly suppressing rates at direct detection experiments, while still allowing for large signals from annihilation. In this…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-08-25 Dan Hooper , Rebecca K. Leane , Yu-Dai Tsai , Shalma Wegsman , Samuel J. Witte

Studies of Fermi-Large Area Telescope (LAT) data coincident with dwarf spheroidal satellite galaxies (dSphs) of the Milky Way (MW) have put the most stringent constraints on models of annihilating dark matter (DM) with candidate masses in…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-05-26 A. Circiello , M. Di Mauro , M. Ajello , C. Karwin , A. Drlica-Wagner , M. Á. Sánchez-Conde

Dark matter (DM) charged under a dark U(1) force appears in many extensions of the Standard Model, and has been invoked to explain anomalies in cosmic-ray data, as well as a self-interacting DM candidate. In this paper, we perform a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-05-23 Marco Cirelli , Paolo Panci , Kalliopi Petraki , Filippo Sala , Marco Taoso

Global fits of primary and secondary cosmic-ray (CR) fluxes measured by AMS-02 have great potential to study CR propagation models and search for exotic sources of antimatter such as annihilating dark matter (DM). Previous studies of AMS-02…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-06-14 Alessandro Cuoco , Jan Heisig , Lukas Klamt , Michael Korsmeier , Michael Krämer

In the past decade, gamma-ray observations and radio observations put strong constraints on the parameters of dark matter annihilation. In this article, we suggest another robust way to constrain the parameters of dark matter annihilation.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-08-09 Man Ho Chan

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

Recently the AMS-02 collaboration has published the measurement of the cosmic antiproton to proton ratio $\bar{p}/p$ and the $\bar{p}$ flux with a high precision up to $\sim 450\,\mathrm{GeV}$. In this work, we perform a systematic analysis…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-12-27 Su-Jie Lin , Xiao-Jun Bi , Jie Feng , Peng-Fei Yin , Zhao-Huan Yu

Dark Matter annihilation (DMA) may yield an excess of gamma rays and antimatter particles, like antiprotons and positrons, above the background from cosmic ray interactions. Several signatures, ranging from the positron excess, as observed…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 W. de Boer

In this work we perform a comprehensive statistical analysis of the AMS-02 electron, positron fluxes and the antiproton-to-proton ratio in the context of a simplified dark matter model. We include known, standard astrophysical sources and a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-05-25 Csaba Balázs , Tong Li

We provide conservative bounds on the dark matter cross-section and lifetime from final state radiation produced by annihilation or decay into charged leptons, either directly or via an intermediate particle $\phi$. Our analysis utilizes…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-09-04 Rouven Essig , Neelima Sehgal , Louis E. Strigari

Indications for a gamma-ray line(s) signal towards the Galactic center at an energy of about 130 GeV have been recently presented. While dark matter annihilations are a viable candidate for this signal, it is generally expected that such a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2012-11-15 Ilias Cholis , Maryam Tavakoli , Piero Ullio

The gamma-ray line from dark matter (DM) annihilation is too weak to observe, but its observation will uncover much information, e.g., the DM mass and an nomalously large annihilation rate $\sim0.1$ pb into di-photon. In this work, we…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2012-06-29 Zhaofeng Kang , Tianjun Li , Jinmian Li , Yandong Liu

The study of the cross-correlation angular power spectrum between gravitational tracers and electromagnetic signals can be a powerful tool to constrain Dark Matter (DM) microscopic properties. In this work we correlate \Fermi\ diffuse…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-05-06 Xiuhui Tan , Manuel Colavincenzo

Several groups have identified an extended excess of gamma rays over the modeled foreground and background emissions towards the Galactic center (GC) based on observations with the Fermi Large Area Telescope. This excess emission is…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-04-28 Francesca Calore , Ilias Cholis , Christopher McCabe , Christoph Weniger

Using the updated proton and helium fluxes just released by the AMS-02 experiment we reevaluate the secondary astrophysical antiproton to proton ratio and its uncertainties, and compare it with the ratio preliminarly reported by AMS-02. We…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-09-30 Gaëlle Giesen , Mathieu Boudaud , Yoann Genolini , Vivian Poulin , Marco Cirelli , Pierre Salati , Pasquale D. Serpico

The WIMP proposed here yields the observed abundance of dark matter, and is consistent with the current limits from direct detection, indirect detection, and collider experiments, if its mass is $\sim 72$ GeV/$c^2$. It is also consistent…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-08-02 Reagan Thornberry , Maxwell Throm , Gabriel Frohaug , John Killough , Dylan Blend , Michael Erickson , Brian Sun , Brett Bays , Roland E. Allen

Recently the PAMELA experiment has released its updated anti-proton flux and anti-proton to proton flux ratio data up to energies of ~200GeV. With no clear excess of cosmic ray anti-protons at high energies, one can extend constraints on…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2011-09-28 Ilias Cholis

The CoGeNT experiment, dedicated to direct detection of dark matter, has recently released excess events that could be interpreted as elastic collisions of $\sim$10 GeV dark matter particles, which might simultaneously explain the still…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-10-17 David G. Cerdeno , Timur Delahaye , Julien Lavalle