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Utilizing data from the ELVIS and Via Lactea-II simulations, we characterize the local dark matter subhalo population, and use this information to refine the predictions for the gamma-ray fluxes arising from annihilating dark matter in this…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-04-19 Dan Hooper , Samuel J. Witte

We calculate, using unitarity, a lower bound on the branching ratio $\chi\chi\to \gamma\gamma$ and $\chi\chi\to \gamma Z$, where $\chi$ is any halo dark matter particle that has $W^+W^-$ as one of the major annihilation modes. Examples of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-11-30 L. Bergstrom , J. Kaplan

Monoenergetic $\gamma$-ray spectral lines are among the cleanest signatures of dark matter annihilation. We analyze 15 years of Fermi-LAT data, find no spectral lines, and place strong constraints on dark matter annihilation to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-09-12 Pedro De La Torre Luque , Juri Smirnov , Tim Linden

The extra-dimensional origin of dark matter is a fascinating and nowadays often discussed possibility. Here, we present the gamma-ray signatures that are expected from the self-annihilation of Kaluza-Klein dark matter particles. For…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Lars Bergstrom , Torsten Bringmann , Martin Eriksson , Michael Gustafsson

Dark matter may interact with Standard Model (SM) particle through the exchange of a massive spin-2 graviton producing signals that can be detected. In this work we examine the $\gamma$-ray emission signals, including the line emission and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-03-08 Cun Zhang , Ming-Yang Cui , Lei Feng , Yi-Zhong Fan , Zhong-Zhou Ren

Recent measurements of cosmic-ray electron and positron fluxes by PAMELA and ATIC experiments may indicate the existence of annihilating dark matter with large annihilation cross section. We discuss its possible relation to other…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-11-15 Kazunori Nakayama

A leading hypothesis for the nature of the elusive dark matter are thermally produced, weakly interacting massive particles that arise in many theories beyond the standard model of particle physics. Their self-annihilation in astrophysical…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-08-23 Torsten Bringmann

We investigate simplified dark matter models where the dark matter candidate is a Dirac fermion charged only under a new gauge symmetry. In this context one can understand dynamically the stability of the dark matter candidate and the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-10-28 Michael Duerr , Pavel Fileviez Perez , Juri Smirnov

The recent results from the PAMELA, ATIC, FERMI and HESS experiments have focused attention on the possible existence of high energy cosmic ray e^+ e^- that may originate from dark matter (DM) annihilations or decays in the Milky Way. Here…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2011-01-19 Celine Boehm , Timur Delahaye , Joseph Silk

Weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs) remain a prime candidate for the cosmological dark matter (DM), even in the absence of current collider signals that would unambiguously point to new physics below the TeV scale. The…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2012-12-17 Torsten Bringmann , Christoph Weniger

If dark matter consists of weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs), annihilation of WIMPs in the galactic center may lead to an observable enhancement of high energy gamma ray fluxes. We predict the shape and normalization of the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-09-06 Andreas Birkedal , Konstantin T. Matchev , Maxim Perelstein , Andrew Spray

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

We consider regions of the parameter space of the Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model (MSSM) with bino-like neutralino dark matter in which a large fraction of the total dark matter annihilation cross section in the present era arises…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-08-09 Jason Kumar , Pearl Sandick

Gamma-rays induced by annihilation or decay of dark matter can be its smoking gun signature. In particular, gamma-rays generated by internal bremsstrahlung of Majorana and real scalar dark matter is promising since it can be a leading…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-09-23 Hiroshi Okada , Takashi Toma

The energy spectra of Standard Model particles originated from Dark Matter annihilations can be significantly altered by the inclusion of electroweak gauge boson radiation from the final state. A situation where this effect is particularly…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-03-19 Andrea De Simone

We investigate the phenomenology of a simplified model with a Majorana fermion as dark matter candidate which interacts with Standard Model quarks via a colour-charged coannihilation partner. Recently it has been realized that…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-03-19 S. Biondini , S. Vogl

We revisit thermal Majorana dark matter from the viewpoint of minimal effective field theory. In this framework, analytic results for dark matter annihilation into standard model particles are derived. The dark matter parameter space…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-03-04 Huayong Han , Hongyan Wu , Sibo Zheng

The search for sharp features in the gamma-ray spectrum is a promising approach to identify a signal from dark matter annihilations over the astrophysical backgrounds. In this paper we investigate the generation of gamma-ray lines and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-08-27 Alejandro Ibarra , Takashi Toma , Maximilian Totzauer , Sebastian Wild

If the dark matter in the Universe is made of weakly self-interacting particles, they may self-annihilate and emit gamma-rays. We use high resolution numerical simulations to estimate directly the annihilation flux from the central regions…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-09-25 Felix Stoehr , Simon D. M. White , Volker Springel , Giuseppe Tormen , Naoki Yoshida

Although most proposed dark matter candidates are stable, in order for dark matter to be present today, the only requirement is that its lifetime is longer than the age of the Universe, t_U ~ 4 10^17 s. Moreover, the dark matter particle…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-12-13 Sergio Palomares-Ruiz , Jennifer M. Siegal-Gaskins