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Indirect detection is one of the most powerful methods to search for annihilating dark matter. In this work, we investigate the impact of non-perturbative effects in the indirect detection of dark matter. For this purpose we utilize a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-03-29 Simone Biondini , Julian Bollig , Stefan Vogl

In this work, we investigate a neutrinophilic low-mass dark matter model mediated by a pseudoscalar particle. Since dark matter lacks Standard Model gauge charges, new interactions are required to connect it to the visible sector.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-03-31 Zhuo Zhang , Lian-Bao Jia , Reyes J. F. Eduardo

In this paper, we construct a viable model for a GeV scale self-interacting dark matter (DM), where the DM was thermally produced in the early universe. Here, a new vector-like fermion with a dark charge under the $U(1)_{D}$ gauge symmetry…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-04-24 Shu-Yu Ho , Pyungwon Ko , Dibyendu Nanda

We construct a model based on an extra gauge symmetry, SU(2)_X x U(1)_{B-L}, which can provide gauge bosons to serve as weakly-interacting massive particle dark matter. The stability of the dark matter is naturally guaranteed by a discrete…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-03-07 Cheng-Wei Chiang , Takaaki Nomura , Jusak Tandean

We present a model of vector dark matter that interacts through a low-mass vector mediator based on the Higgsing of an SU(2) dark sector. The dark matter is charged under a U(1) gauge symmetry. Even though this symmetry is broken, the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-04-08 Ian Chaffey , Philip Tanedo

We propose a GeV-scale self-interacting dark matter (SIDM) candidate within a dark $U(1)_D$ gauged extension of the Standard Model (SM), addressing small-scale structure issues in $\Lambda$CDM while predicting an observable contribution to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-04-24 Debasish Borah , Satyabrata Mahapatra , Narendra Sahu , Vicky Singh Thounaojam

Simulations of self-interacting dark matter (SIDM) predict that dark matter should lag behind galaxies during a collision. If the interaction is mediated by a high-mass force carrier, the distribution of dark matter can also develop…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-04-14 Peter Taylor , Richard Massey , Mathilde Jauzac , Frédéric Courbin , David Harvey , Rémy Joseph , Andrew Robertson

It has been shown by many independent studies that the cold dark matter scenario produces singular galactic dark halos, in strong contrast with observations. Possible remedies are that either the dark matter is warm so that it has…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Steen Hannestad , Robert J. Scherrer

The center of the Milky Way is predicted to be the brightest region of gamma-rays generated by self-annihilating dark matter particles. Excess emission about the Galactic center above predictions made for standard astrophysical processes…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-05-10 Christopher Karwin , Simona Murgia , Tim M. P. Tait , Troy A. Porter , Philip Tanedo

Anisotropies in the electromagnetic emission produced by dark matter annihilation or decay in the extragalactic sky are a recent tool in the quest for a particle dark matter evidence. We review the formalism to compute the two-point angular…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-01-28 Nicolao Fornengo , Marco Regis

We present a method to investigate the properties of solitonic cores in the Thomas-Fermi regime under the self-interacting scalar field dark matter framework. Using semi-analytical techniques, we characterize soliton signatures through…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-03-06 Raquel Galazo García , Eric Jullo , Emmanuel Nezri , Marceau Limousin

We study the impact of self-interactions on the structure and evolution of scalar field dark matter (SFDM) halos. Using three-dimensional Gross-Pitaevskii-Poisson simulations of multiple soliton mergers, we explore both repulsive and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-13 Jessica N. López-Sánchez , Erick Munive-Villa , Tanja Rindler-Daller

The existence and detection of scalar fields could provide solutions to long-standing puzzles about the nature of dark matter, the dark compact objects at the centre of most galaxies, and other phenomena. Yet, self-interacting scalar fields…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-01-27 Pau Amaro-Seoane , Juan Barranco , Argelia Bernal , Luciano Rezzolla

With the growing interest in indirect detection for dark matter signature, the thesis aims to investigate the signal originating from the self-annihilation of dark matter candidates. The methods for targeting the dark matter signal are…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-09-01 Pooja Bhattacharjee

Self-interacting dark matter has been proposed as a solution to the small-scale structure problems, such as the observed flat cores in dwarf and low surface brightness galaxies. If scattering takes place through light mediators, the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-03-30 Mattias Blennow , Stefan Clementz , Juan Herrero-Garcia

Both the robust INTEGRAL 511 keV gamma-ray line and the recent tentative hint of the 135 GeV gamma-ray line from Fermi-LAT have similar signal morphologies, and may be produced from the same dark matter annihilation. Motivated by this…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-12 Yang Bai , Meng Su , Yue Zhao

We revisit the possibility of light scalar dark matter, in the MeV to GeV mass bracket and coupled to electrons through fermion or vector mediators, in light of significant experimental and observational advances that probe new physics…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-04-14 Céline Bœhm , Xiaoyong Chu , Jui-Lin Kuo , Josef Pradler

We compare the statistics and morphology of giant arcs in galaxy clusters using N-body and non-radiative SPH simulations within the standard cold dark matter model and simulations where dark matter has a non-negligible probability of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-10-28 J. Vega-Ferrero , J. M. Dana , J. M. Diego , G. Yepes , W. Cui , M. Meneghetti

Dark matter (DM) could self-annihilate into neutrinos in dense regions of the Universe. We consider the resulting flux of neutrinos from the Milky Way DM halo and derive exclusion limits on the annihilation cross-section using XENONnT…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-09-19 Boris Betancourt Kamenetskaia , Jong-Chul Park , Merlin Reichard , Gaurav Tomar

The sub-keV mass range has long posed a challenge for the direct detection of dark matter via elastic scattering. In this Letter, we propose a new mechanism in which dark matter, assumed to be quadratically coupled to SM particles, scatters…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-12-19 Zhi-Han Liu , Shigeki Matsumoto , Jie Sheng , Chuan-Yang Xing