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The Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS), to be installed on the International Space Station, will provide data on cosmic radiations in a large energy range. The main physics goals in the astroparticle domain are the antimatter and the dark…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Diego Casadei

We report on constraints on the lifetime of decaying gravitino dark matter in models with bilinear R-parity violation derived from observations of cosmic-ray antiprotons with the PAMELA experiment. Performing a scan over a viable set of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-03-30 Michael Grefe , Timur Delahaye

The Fermi experiment has measured the cosmic ray electron+positron spectrum and positron fraction [$\Phi_{e^+}/(\Phi_{e^+ + e^-})]$, and PAMELA has measured the positron fraction with better precision. While the majority of cosmic ray…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-04-04 Arjun Sharma

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

The positron excess observed by the PAMELA experiment may come from dark matter annihilation, if the annihilation cross section is large enough. We show that the dark matter annihilation scenarios to explain the positron excess may also be…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-11-18 Junji Hisano , Masahiro Kawasaki , Kazunori Kohri , Kazunori Nakayama

The origin of dark matter is a driving question of modern physics. Low-energy antideuterons provide a "smoking gun" signature of dark matter annihilation or decay, essentially free of astrophysical background. Low-energy antiprotons are a…

The cosmic antideuteron is a promising probe for the dark matter annihilation signature. In order to determine the DM signature, the background astrophysical antideuteron flux should be carefully studied. In this work we provide a new…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-01-04 Su-Jie Lin , Xiao-Jun Bi , Peng-Fei Yin

In light of the first measurement of the positron fraction by the AMS-02 experiment, we perform a detailed global analysis on the interpretation of the latest data of PAMELA, Fermi-LAT, and AMS-02 in terms of dark matter (DM) annihilation…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-15 Hong-Bo Jin , Yue-Liang Wu , Yu-Feng Zhou

The PAMELA and Fermi measurements of the cosmic-ray electron and positron spectra have generated much interest over the past two years, because they are consistent with a significant component of the electron and positron fluxes between 20…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-08-05 Spencer Chang , Lisa Goodenough

AMS-02 is a cosmic ray experiment that will be placed on the International Space Station. One of its goals is to search for WIMP Dark Matter, specifically from anomalous features in the positron spectrum. In order to identify positrons at…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2017-08-23 G. Carosi

The flux of cosmic-ray high-energy positrons has recently been measured by AMS with unprecedented precision. This flux is well above the expectation from secondary positrons made by the observed fluxes of nuclear cosmic rays impinging on…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-09-05 A. De Rújula

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 puzzling excess in gamma-rays at GeV energies has been observed in the center of our galaxy using Fermi-LAT data. Its origin is still unknown, but it is well fitted by Weakly Interacting Massive Particles (WIMPs) annihilations into quarks…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-11-15 Giorgio Arcadi , Farinaldo S. Queiroz , Clarissa Siqueira

Recently the PAMELA satellite-based experiment reported an excess of galactic positrons that could be a signal of annihilating dark matter. The PAMELA data may admit an interpretation as a signal from a wino-like LSP of mass about 200 GeV,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-04-15 Phill Grajek , Gordon Kane , Dan Phalen , Aaron Pierce , Scott Watson

Antideuterons and antihelium nuclei in the cosmic-ray spectrum have long been considered a smoking gun signature of dark matter annihilation, making the tentative observation of several such events by AMS highly intriguing. Conventional…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-03-16 Caleb Gemmell , Dan Hooper , Seth Koren , Fabrizio Vassallo

The recent AMS-02 measurements of cosmic-ray (CR) deuteron fluxes suggest the presence of primary deuterons in quantities far exceeding predictions from Big Bang nucleosynthesis. This poses a significant challenge to modern astrophysics, as…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-06-25 Xing-Jian Lv , Xiao-Jun Bi , Kun Fang , Peng-Fei Yin , Meng-Jie Zhao

We consider the Z5 two-component dark matter model within the framework of the Type-II seesaw mechanism. Due to the new annihilation processes related to triplets, the light component cannot necessarily be dominant in the dark matter relic…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-11-19 XinXin Qi , Hao Sun

Antiprotons are regarded as a powerful probe for Dark Matter (DM) indirect detection and indeed current data from \PAMELA\ have been shown to lead to stringent constraints. However, in order to exploit their constraining/discovery power…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-10-28 Mathieu Boudaud

We show that decaying axino dark matter with R-parity violation can explain the observed excess of the 130GeV gamma-ray line from the Galactic center in the Fermi data. The branching fraction of the axino decay into monochromatic photons…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-03-28 Motoi Endo , Koichi Hamaguchi , Seng Pei Liew , Kyohei Mukaida , Kazunori Nakayama

In view of the fact that the AMS-02 instrument has recently been used to make preliminary observations of the ratio of the antiprotons (\-{P}) to protons (P) in the primary cosmic radiation we have returned to our idea of signatures of a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-10-08 Anatoly Erlykin , Arnold Wolfendale