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The weakly interacting massive particle (WIMP) often serves as a candidate for the cold dark matter, however when produced non-thermally it could behave like warm dark matter. In this paper we study the properties of the $\gamma$-ray…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2012-12-12 Qiang Yuan , Yixian Cao , Jie Liu , Peng-Fei Yin , Liang Gao , Xiao-Jun Bi , Xinmin Zhang

We compute the gamma-ray output of axion-mediated dark matter and derive the corresponding constraints set by recent data. In such scenarios the dark matter candidate is a Dirac fermion that pair-annihilates into axions and/or scalars.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-04-11 Alejandro Ibarra , Hyun Min Lee , Sergio López Gehler , Wan-Il Park , Miguel Pato

Annihilation of cosmologically distributed dark matter is predicted to produce a potentially observable flux of high energy photons. Neglecting the contribution from local structure, this signal is predicted to be virtually uniform on the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2009-12-10 Scott Dodelson , Alexander V. Belikov , Dan Hooper , Pasquale Serpico

In this thesis a simple extension of the Standard Model has been investigated. The Standard Model gauge group has been extended by an additional $U(1)_X$ group. The model introduces a new Higgs particle as well as three particles (a gauge…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-04-30 Michal Iglicki

We propose an extension of the standard model with Majorana-type fermionic dark matters based on the flatland scenario where all scalar coupling constants, including scalar mass terms, vanish at the Planck scale, i.e. the scalar potential…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-05-08 Yu Hamada , Koji Tsumura , Masatoshi Yamada

There has been interest recently on particle physics models that may give rise to sharp gamma ray spectral features from dark matter annihilation. Because dark matter is supposed to be electrically neutral, it is challenging to build weakly…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-16 Federica Giacchino , Laura Lopez-Honorez , Michel H. G. Tytgat

We analyze a classically scale invariant extension of the Standard Model with dark gauge $U(1)_X$ broken by doubly charge scalar $\Phi$ leaving a remnant $Z_2$ symmetry. Dark fermions are introduced as dark matter candidates and for anomaly…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-02-10 Sanjin Benic , Branimir Radovcic

In this paper, we study gamma ray spectra for various scenarios of dark matter annihilation and decay. We focus on processes which generate only high-energy photons or leptons and photons, but no proton-antiproton pairs, to be compatible…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-08-18 Jean-François Fortin , Jessie Shelton , Scott Thomas , Yue Zhao

Recently, it has been shown that electrons and positrons from dark matter (DM) annihilations provide an excellent fit to the Fermi, PAMELA, and HESS data. Using this DM model, which requires an enhancement of the annihilation cross section…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2009-11-20 Anders Pinzke , Christoph Pfrommer , Lars Bergstrom

We discuss a simple theory for neutrino masses where the total lepton number is a local gauge symmetry spontaneously broken below the multi-TeV scale. In this context, the neutrino masses are generated through the canonical seesaw mechanism…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-07-02 Hridoy Debnath , Pavel Fileviez Perez , Kevin Gonzalez-Quesada

We study the phenomenology of a $U_X(1)$ extension of the Standard Model where the SM particles are not charged under the new abelian group. The Green-Schwarz mechanism insures that the model is anomaly free. The erstwhile invisible dark…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-09-29 Y. Mambrini

The dark matter halo of the Milky Way is predicted to contain a very large number of smaller subhalos. As a result of the dark matter annihilations taking place within such objects, the most nearby and massive subhalos could appear as…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-01-22 Asher Berlin , Dan Hooper

We consider dark matter (DM) that interacts with ordinary matter exclusively through an electromagnetic anapole, which is the only allowed electromagnetic form factor for Majorana fermions. We show that unlike DM particles with an electric…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-12 Chiu Man Ho , Robert J. Scherrer

We present a comprehensive study of a model where the dark matter is composed of a singlet real scalar that couples to the Standard Model predominantly via a Yukawa interaction with a light quark and a colored vector-like fermion. A…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-02-17 Federica Giacchino , Alejandro Ibarra , Laura Lopez Honorez , Michel H. G. Tytgat , Sebastian Wild

Arguably, the most popular candidate for Dark Matter (DM) is a massive, stable, Majorana fermion. However, annihilation of Majorana DM to two fermions often features a helicity-suppressed s-wave rate. Radiating a gauge boson via electroweak…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-12 Thomas J. Weiler

If the present dark matter in the Universe annihilates into Standard Model particles, it must contribute to the fluxes of cosmic rays that are detected on the Earth, and in particular, to the observed gamma ray fluxes. The magnitude of such…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-04-22 J. A. R. Cembranos , A. de la Cruz-Dombriz , A. Dobado , R. A. Lineros , A. L. Maroto

We present a simple model of weak-scale thermal dark matter that gives rise to X-ray lines. Dark matter consists of two nearly degenerate states near the weak scale, which are populated thermally in the early universe via co-annihilation…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-22 Adam Falkowski , Yonit Hochberg , Joshua T. Ruderman

Recently, several groups identified a tentative $\gamma$-ray line signal with energy $\sim 130$ GeV in the central Galaxy from the Fermi-LAT data. %The morphology study shows that the signal is consistent with dark matter %annihilation, but…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-08-24 Rui-Zhi Yang , Qiang Yuan , Lei Feng , Yi-Zhong Fan , Jin Chang

We estimate the gamma ray fluxes from the residual annihilations of Dark Matter particles having a mass mdm \in [MeV, O(GeV)] and compare them to observations. We find that particles lighter than O(100 MeV) are excluded unless their cross…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 C. Boehm , T. A. Ensslin , J. Silk

We examine the expected signal from annihilation events in realistic cold dark matter halos. If the WIMP is a neutralino, with an annihilation cross-section predicted in minimal SUSY models for the lightest stable relic particle, the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 James E. Taylor , Joseph Silk