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Numerous observations confirm the existence of dark matter (DM) at astrophysical and cosmological scales. Theory and simulations of galaxy formation predict that DM should cluster on small scales in bound structures called sub-halos or DM…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-01-20 Christopher Eckner , Veronika Vodeb , Tejas Satheesh , Francesca Calore , Moritz Hütten , Pierrick Martin , Gabrijela Zaharijas

A wealth of astrophysical and cosmological observational evidence shows that the matter content of the universe is made of about 85$\%$ of non-baryonic dark matter. Huge experimental efforts have been deployed to look for the direct…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-11-17 Igor Reis , Emmanuel Moulin , Aion Viana

Recent gamma-ray and radio observations provide stringent constraints for annihilating dark matter. The current $2\sigma$ lower limits of dark matter mass can be constrained to $\sim 100$ GeV for thermal relic annihilation cross section. In…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-01-05 Man Ho Chan , Chak Man Lee

High-energetic gamma rays from astrophysical targets constitute a unique probe for annihilation or decay of heavy particle dark matter (DM). After several decades, diverse null detections have resulted in strong constraints for DM particle…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-09-14 Moritz Hütten , Daniel Kerszberg

Among the several strategies for indirect searches of dark matter, one very promising one is to look for the gamma-rays from decaying dark matter. Here we use the most up-to-date upper bounds on the gamma-ray flux from $10^5$ to $10^{11}$…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-11-17 Marco Chianese , Damiano F. G. Fiorillo , Rasmi Hajjar , Gennaro Miele , Ninetta Saviano

Gamma-ray observations of the Galactic Center (GC) region provide some of the most sensitive measurements of annihilation signals from dark matter in the GeV-TeV mass range. We present the first results from 178 hours of VERITAS…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-09-25 James L Ryan

From 16 years of INTEGRAL/SPI $\gamma$-ray observations, we derive bounds on annihilating light dark matter particles in the halo of the Milky Way up to masses of about 300 MeV. We test four different spatial templates for the dark matter…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-02-29 Thomas Siegert , Francesca Calore , Pasquale Dario Serpico

Due to a large mass-to-light ratio and low astrophysical backgrounds, dwarf spheroidal galaxies (dSphs) are considered to be one of the most promising targets for dark matter searches via gamma rays. The Fermi LAT Collaboration has recently…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-13 Alex Drlica-Wagner

The nearby dwarf spheroidal galaxy Draco with its high mass to light ratio is one of the most auspicious targets for indirect dark matter searches. Annihilation of hypothetical DM particles can result in high-energy gamma-rays, e.g. from…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 MAGIC Collaboration , J. Albert

The search for Dark Matter (DM) has great potential to reveal physics beyond the Standard Model. As such, searches for evidence of DM particles are being carried out using a wide range of techniques, such as direct searches for DM…

A number of new balloon or space-based $\gamma$-ray observatories have been proposed to close a "MeV gap" in sensitivity to $\gamma$ rays in the MeV-GeV energy band. One aspect of the science case for these instruments is their ability to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-04-29 Kayla E. O'Donnell , Tracy R. Slatyer

The H.E.S.S. array of Cherenkov telescopes has performed, from 2004 to 2007, a survey of the inner Galactic plane at photon energies above 100 GeV. About 400 hours of data have been accumulated in the region between -30 and +60 degrees in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-09-29 HESS Collaboration , F Aharonian , G. Bertone

Gamma-ray lines from dark matter annihilation ($\chi\chi\to \gamma X$, where $X=\gamma,h,Z$) are always accompanied, at lower energies, by a continuum gamma-ray spectrum stemming both from radiative corrections ($X=\gamma$) and from the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-08-03 Stefano Profumo , Farinaldo S. Queiroz , Carlos E. Yaguna

The High-Altitude Water Cherenkov experiment (HAWC) observatory is located 4100 meters above sea level. HAWC is able to detect secondary particles from extensive air showers (EAS) initiated in the interaction of a primary particle (either a…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-13 E. Bourbeau , T. Capistrán , I. Torres , E. Moreno

The presence of dark matter in the halo of our galaxy could be revealed through indirect detection of annihilation products. Dark matter annihilation is one of the possible interpretations of the recent measured excesses in positron and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-13 Lidia Pieri , Massimiliano Lattanzi , Joseph Silk

In the past decade, gamma-ray observations and radio observations put strong constraints on the parameters of dark matter annihilation. In this article, we suggest another robust way to constrain the parameters of dark matter annihilation.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-08-09 Man Ho Chan

We present the first measurement of the cross-correlation of weak gravitational lensing and the extragalactic gamma-ray background emission using data from the Canada-France-Hawaii Lensing Survey and the Fermi Large Area Telescope. The…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-09-10 Masato Shirasaki , Shunsaku Horiuchi , Naoki Yoshida

Weak-scale secluded sector dark matter can reproduce the observed dark matter relic density with thermal freeze-out within that sector. If nature is supersymmetric, three portals to the visible sector - a gauge portal, a Higgs portal, and a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-02-16 Patrick Barnes , Zachary Johnson , Aaron Pierce , Bibhushan Shakya

Radio observations of the Ursa Major II dwarf spheroidal galaxy obtained using the Green Bank Telescope are used to place bounds on WIMP dark matter properties. Dark matter annihilation releases energy in the form of charged particles which…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-11-13 Aravind Natarajan , Jeffrey B. Peterson , Tabitha C. Voytek , Kristine Spekkens , Brian Mason , James Aguirre , Beth Willman

We show that Milky Way white dwarfs are excellent targets for dark matter (DM) detection. Using Fermi and H.E.S.S. Galactic center gamma-ray data, we investigate sensitivity to DM annihilating within white dwarfs into long-lived or boosted…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-06-05 Javier F. Acevedo , Rebecca K. Leane , Lillian Santos-Olmsted