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Dark matter (DM) annihilations have been widely studied as a possible explanation of excess gamma rays from the galactic center seen by Fermi/LAT. However most such models are in conflict with constraints from dwarf spheroidals. Motivated…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-07-22 Jeremie Choquette , James M. Cline , Jonathan M. Cornell

Stringent constraints from direct detection experiments and the Large Hadron Collider motivate us to consider models in which the dark matter does not directly couple to the Standard Model, but that instead annihilates into hidden sector…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-12-13 Miguel Escudero , Samuel J. Witte , Dan Hooper

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 study of anomalous gamma-ray emission in the regions surrounding the galactic center has drawn a lot of attention as it points out that the excess of $\sim 1-3$ GeV gamma-ray in the low latitude is consistent with the emission…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-04-09 Tanushree Basak , Tanmoy Mondal

A stable Dirac fermion with four-fermion interactions to leptons suppressed by a scale Lambda ~ 1 TeV is shown to provide a viable candidate for dark matter. The thermal relic abundance matches cosmology, while nuclear recoil direct…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-04-28 Roni Harnik , Graham D. Kribs

We propose a simplified model of dark matter with a scalar mediator to accommodate the di-photon excess recently observed by the ATLAS and CMS collaborations. Decays of the resonance into dark matter can easily account for a relatively…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-04-20 Mihailo Backovic , Alberto Mariotti , Diego Redigolo

The gamma-ray excess observed by the Fermi-LAT in the Galactic Center can be interpreted by the dark matter annihilation to $b\bar{b}$ via a light pseudoscalar in the NMSSM. It is interesting to note that the corresponding singlet scalar is…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-07-15 Xiao-Jun Bi , Ligong Bian , Weicong Huang , Jing Shu , Peng-Fei Yin

The long-standing Galactic center gamma-ray excess could be explained by GeV dark matter (DM) annihilation, while the DM interpretation seems in tension with recent joint limits from different astronomical scale observations, such as dwarf…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-07-07 Lian-Bao Jia , Tong Li

The direct measurements of the cosmic electron-positron spectrum around 1 TeV made by DAMPE have induced many theoretical speculations about possible excesses in the data above the standard astrophysical predictions that might have the dark…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-07-01 Konstantin Belotsky , Airat Kamaletdinov , Maxim Laletin , Maxim Solovyov

A number of papers attempt to explain the positron anomaly in cosmic rays, observed by PAMELA and AMS-02, in terms of dark matter (DM) decays or annihilations. However, the recent progress in cosmic gamma-ray studies challenges these…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-01-12 Konstantin Belotsky , Ruslan Budaev , Alexander Kirillov , Maxim Laletin

We study a minimal framework where a Majorana fermion dark matter particle interacts with a light scalar mediator coupled mainly to electrons. We examine both freeze-out and freeze-in production to determine the regions of parameter space…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-05-28 Marco Graziani , Giacomo Landini , Federico Mescia , Claudio Toni , Ludovico Vittorio

We consider a small extension of the standard model by adding two Majorana fermions; those are adjoint representations of the SU(2)_L and SU(3)_c gauge groups of the standard model. In this extension, the gauge coupling unification at an…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-09-28 Masahiro Ibe

Recent results from the CoGeNT collaboration (as well as the annual modulation reported by DAMA/LIBRA) point toward dark matter with a light (5-10 GeV) mass and a relatively large elastic scattering cross section with nucleons (\sigma ~…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-08-09 Matthew R. Buckley , Dan Hooper , Tim M. P. Tait

Thermal relic dark matter particles with a mass of 31-40 GeV and that dominantly annihilate to bottom quarks have been shown to provide an excellent description of the excess gamma rays observed from the center of the Milky Way. Flavored…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-09-17 Prateek Agrawal , Brian Batell , Dan Hooper , Tongyan Lin

We study the capabilities of the Fermi-LAT instrument for identifying particle Dark Matter properties as mass, annihilation cross section and annihilation channels, with gamma-ray observations from the Galactic Center. For the potential…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2010-12-02 Nicolas Bernal

We show that a scalar and a fermion charged under a global U(1) symmetry can not only explain the existence and abundance of dark matter (DM) and dark radiation (DR), but also imbue DM with improved scattering properties at galactic scales,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-10-21 Xiaoyong Chu , Basudeb Dasgupta

The diffuse gamma ray emission from astrophysical backgrounds in our Galaxy and the signal due to the annihilation or decay of Dark Matter (DM) in the Galactic Halo are expected to have a substantially different morphology and spectral…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-14 Gabrijela Zaharijas , Alessandro Cuoco , Zhaoyu Yang , Jan Conrad

Recent Super-Kamiokande analyses of the diffuse supernova neutrino background, based on data across all SK phases, indicate a mild preference over the zero-DSNB hypothesis at the level of about $2.3\sigma$ with electron-like antineutrino…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-05-28 Motoi Endo , Yushi Mura , Tenta Tsuji

The Fermi Large Area Telescope has provided the most detailed view toward the Galactic Centre (GC) in high-energy gamma rays. Besides the interstellar emission and point-source contributions, the data suggest a residual diffuse gamma-ray…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-02-07 Giacomo Fragione , Fabio Antonini , Oleg Y. Gnedin

Persistent excesses in the spectra of gamma rays from the galactic center and cosmic ray antiprotons can be explained by dark matter of mass $50\sim 65$\,GeV annihilating into $b$ quarks, but this is typically hard to reconcile with direct…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-08-28 James M. Cline , Takashi Toma