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The nature of dark matter is one of the most pressing questions in modern cosmology. Much work has been focussed in the past upon probing potential particle dark matter via gamma-rays resulting from its annihilation or decay. These processs…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-12-09 Geoff Beck

Particles with TeV mass and strong self-interactions generically have the right annihilation cross section to explain an observed excess of cosmic electrons and positrons if the end-product of the annihilation is charged leptons. We present…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-08-12 Yi Cai , David E. Kaplan , Markus A. Luty

The relic abundance of particle and antiparticle dark matter (DM) need not be vastly different in thermal asymmetric dark matter (ADM) models. By considering the effect of a primordial asymmetry on the thermal Boltzmann evolution of coupled…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-01-14 Nicole F. Bell , Shunsaku Horiuchi , Ian M. Shoemaker

We calculate the radiative corrections to the annihilation of the Dark Matter particles into leptons. Lepton masses are taken into account. As the Dark Matter particles are considered both Dirac and Majorana fermions. We sum up all the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-04-28 A. A. Radovskaya , E. A. Kuraev

Monochromatic photons could be produced in the annihilation or decay of dark matter particles. At high energies, the search for such line features in the cosmic gamma-ray spectrum is essentially background free because plausible…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-05-27 Gilles Vertongen , Christoph Weniger

Dark matter pair production at high energy colliders may leave observable signatures in the energy and momentum spectra of the objects recoiling against the dark matter. We use LEP data on mono-photon events with large missing energy to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-08-09 Patrick J. Fox , Roni Harnik , Joachim Kopp , Yuhsin Tsai

The cosmic electron and positron excesses have been explained as possible dark matter (DM) annihilation products. In this work we investigate the possible effects of such a DM annihilation scenario during the evolution history of the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-20 Qiang Yuan , Bin Yue , Xiaojun Bi , Xuelei Chen , Xinmin Zhang

We consider a simplified model in which Majorana fermion dark matter annihilates to charged fermions through exchange of charged mediators. We consider the gamma-ray signals arising from the processes $XX \rightarrow \bar f f \gamma$,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-07-27 Jason Kumar , Pearl Sandick , Fei Teng , Takahiro Yamamoto

We study the spectra of gamma ray signals that arise from dark matter annihilation in the universe. We focus on the large class of theories where the photon spectrum includes both continuum spectrum of gamma rays that arise from…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-03-19 Kevork N. Abazajian , Prateek Agrawal , Zackaria Chacko , Can Kilic

AMS-02 provided the unprecedented statistics in the measurement of the positron fraction from cosmic rays. That may offer a unique opportunity to distinguish the positron spectrum coming from various dark matter (DM) annihilation channels,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-02-17 Yu-Heng Chen , Kingman Cheung , Po-Yan Tseng

A sharp and spatially extended peak in an astrophysical gamma ray spectrum would provide very strong evidence for the existence of dark matter (DM), given that there are no known astrophysical processes that could mimic such a signal. From…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-04-28 Joachim Kopp , Lisa Michaels , Juri Smirnov

For explaining the AMS-02 cosmic positron excess, which was recently reported, we consider a scenario of thermally produced and decaying dark matter (DM) into the standard model (SM) leptons with an extremely small decay rate, \Gamma_{DM}…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-05-02 Ki-Young Choi , Bumseok Kyae , Chang Sub Shin

A monochromatic gamma ray line results when dark matter particles in the galactic halo annihilate to produce a two body final state which includes a photon. Such a signal is very distinctive from astrophysical backgrounds, and thus…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-12-21 Jessica Goodman , Masahiro Ibe , Arvind Rajaraman , William Shepherd , Tim M. P. Tait , Hai-Bo Yu

The positron excess observed by PAMELA and then confirmed by AMS 02 has intrigued the particle physics community since 2008. Various dark matter decay and annihilation models have been built to explain the excess. However, the bounds from…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-05-01 Yasaman Farzan , Meshkat Rajaee

If the Dark Matter (DM) in the Universe has interactions with the standard-model particle, the pair annihilation may give the imprints in the cosmic ray. In this paper we study the pair annihilation processes of the DM, which is neutral,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-04-06 Junji Hisano , Shigeki Matsumoto , Mihoko M. Nojiri

Fermi-LAT has confirmed the excess in cosmic positron fraction observed by PAMELA, which could be explained by dark matter annihilating or decaying in the center of the galaxy. Most existing models postulate that the dark matter annihilates…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-05 Hsin-Chia Cheng , Wei-Chih Huang , Ian Low , Gabe Shaughnessy

We present here a quantitative analysis of the recent AMS-02 data with the purpose of investigating the interplay between astrophysical sources and Dark Matter in their interpretation. First, we show that AMS-02 leptonic measurements are in…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-08-03 Mattia Di Mauro , Andrea Vittino

We point out that current and planned telescopes have the potential of probing annihilating Dark Matter (DM) with a mass of O(100) TeV and beyond. As a target for such searches, we propose models where DM annihilates into lighter mediators,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-02-20 Marco Cirelli , Yann Gouttenoire , Kalliopi Petraki , Filippo Sala

The detection of light dark matter (DM) is a longstanding challenge in terrestrial experiments. High-intensity facility of an intense electromagnetic field may provide a plausible strategy to study strong-field particle physics and search…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-09-03 Kai Ma , Tong Li

Dark matter annihilation into photons in our galaxy would constitute an exciting indirect signal of its existence, as underscored by tentative evidence for 130 GeV dark matter in Fermi/LAT data. Models that give a large annihilation cross…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-11-11 James M. Cline , Grace Dupuis , Zuowei Liu