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Between the ATLAS and CMS collaborations at the LHC, hundreds of individual event selections have been measured in the data to look for evidence of supersymmetry at a center of mass energy of 8 TeV. While there is currently no significant…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-09-06 Benjamin Nachman , Tom Rudelius

Several groups have recently claimed evidence for an unaccounted gamma-ray excess over {the} diffuse backgrounds at few GeV in {the} Fermi-LAT data in a region around the Galactic Center, consistent with a dark matter annihilation origin.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-19 Jovana Petrovic , Pasquale Dario Serpico , Gabrijela Zaharijas

Galactic center (GC) is expected to be the brightest source of possible dark matter (DM) annihilation signal. Excess gamma-ray emission has been detected by several groups. Both DM and more conventional astrophysical explanations of the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-02-12 Dmitry Malyshev

Motivated by the recent indications for a 750 GeV resonance in the di-photon final state at the LHC, in this work we analyse the compatibility of the excess with the broad photon excess detected at the Galactic Centre. Intriguingly, by…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-08-03 Andi Hektor , Luca Marzola

We review the result of SUSY parameter fits based on frequentist analyses of experimental constraints from electroweak precision data, (g-2)_mu, B-physics and cosmological data. We investigate the parameters of the constrained MSSM (CMSSM)…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-12-13 S. Heinemeyer , G. Weiglein

We consider an extension of the lepto-specific 2HDM with an extra singlet $S$ as a dark matter candidate. Taking into account theoretical and experimental constraints, we investigate the possibility to address both the $\gamma$-ray excess…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-10-21 Andi Hektor , Kristjan Kannike , Luca Marzola

Here I present the extension to ${\nu}$MSM model by adding a $U(1)'$ gauge symmetry under which right-handed fermions including sterile neutrinos and exotic Higgs scalar are charged. This model explains 3.5 keV line observed by XMM-Newton…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-12-22 Krishna Kulkarni

Several groups of authors have analyzed Fermi LAT data in a region around the Galactic Center finding an unaccounted gamma-ray excess over diffuse backgrounds in the GeV energy range. It has been argued that it is difficult or even…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-23 Jovana Petrovic , Pasquale D. Serpico , Gabrijela Zaharijas

The IceCube Collaboration has recently reported evidence for a high-energy extraterrestrial neutrino flux. During two years of operation 28 events with energies between 30 TeV and 1.2 PeV were observed while only 10.6 events were expected…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-07-16 Markus Ahlers , Kohta Murase

The Galactic Center excess (GCE) of GeV $\gamma$ rays may hint at dark matter (DM), yet its origin remains debated. Motivated by this, we survey weakly interacting massive particle (WIMP) models that can fit the GCE while satisfying…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-04-07 Chuiyang Kong , Mattia Di Mauro

Fermi-LAT observations of the Galactic Center (GC) have revealed a spherically- symmetric excess of GeV gamma rays extending to at least 10 deg from the dynamical center of the Galaxy. A critical uncertainty in extracting the intensity,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-09-14 Eric Carlson , Tim Linden , Stefano Profumo

We performed a spectro-morphological analysis of the diffuse emission in the Galactic center region with H.E.S.S. gamma-ray data. We relied on templates to model the diffuse emissions (the Galactic center ridge and the foreground component)…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-07-02 J. Devin , A. Lemière , K. Streil , R. Terrier , C. van Eldik

The Fermi gamma ray space telescope data have pointed towards an excess of gamma rays with a peak around $1-3$ GeV in the region surrounding the galactic center. This anomalous excess can be described well by a dark matter candidate having…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-05-09 Debasish Borah , Arnab Dasgupta

We present results of an archival coincidence analysis between Fermi LAT gamma-ray data and public neutrino data from the IceCube neutrino observatory's 40-string (IC40) and 59-string (IC59) observing runs. Our analysis has the potential to…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-10-16 C. F. Turley , D. B. Fox , A. Keivani , J. J. DeLaunay , D. F. Cowen , M. Mostafa , H. A. Ayala Solares , K. Murase

Employing Fermi-LAT gamma ray observations, several independent groups have found excess extended gamma ray emission at the Galactic center (GC). Both, annihilating dark matter (DM) or a population of $\sim 10^3$ unresolved millisecond…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-12-12 Chris Gordon , Oscar Macias

It has been proposed that a recent outburst of cosmic-ray electrons could account for the excess of GeV-scale gamma rays observed from the region surrounding the Galactic Center. After studying this possibility in some detail, we identify…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-12-09 Ilias Cholis , Carmelo Evoli , Francesca Calore , Tim Linden , Christoph Weniger , Dan Hooper

We present a potential test of the origin of the $\gamma$-ray Galactic Centre Excess (GCE). We demonstrate how gravitational microlensing by stellar mass objects along the line of sight to the Galactic Bulge can distinguish between the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-08-28 Nada Salama , Florian List , Geraint Lewis

The Galactic Center Excess (GCE), one of the most remarkable discoveries by Fermi-LAT, has prompted extensive exploration over the past decade, often attributed to dark matter or millisecond pulsars. This work proposes a novel…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-12-25 Wei Zhu , Zi-Qing Xia , Yu-Chen Tang , Lei Feng

The Milky Way's Galactic Center harbors a gamma-ray excess that is a candidate signal of annihilating dark matter. Dwarf galaxies remain predominantly dark in their expected commensurate emission. In this work we quantify the degree of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-05-16 Ryan E. Keeley , Kevork N. Abazajian , Anna Kwa , Nicholas L. Rodd , Benjamin R. Safdi

A new population of millisecond pulsars is a long-standing proposed explanation for the excess of GeV-scale gamma rays emanating from the region surrounding the center of the Milky Way (the "Galactic Center excess"). We examine several…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-07-06 Jack T. Dinsmore , Tracy R. Slatyer