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We systematically analyze the impact of current and foreseen cosmic ray antiproton measurements on the properties of Dark Matter (DM). We find that: 1) The current data from PAMELA impose constraints on annihilating and decaying DM which…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-12 Marco Cirelli , Gaëlle Giesen

AMS-02 provided the unprecedented statistics in the measurement of the positron fraction from cosmic rays. That may offer a unique opportunity to distinguish the positron spectrum coming from various dark matter (DM) annihilation channels,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-02-17 Yu-Heng Chen , Kingman Cheung , Po-Yan Tseng

In this work we perform an analysis of the recent AMS-02 antiproton flux and the antiproton-to-proton ratio in the framework of simplified dark matter models. To predict the AMS-02 observables we adopt the propagation and injection…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-05-24 Tong Li

We discuss challenges to a dark matter annihilation interpretation of the excess positron fraction in the cosmic rays observed by the PAMELA, Fermi-LAT and AMS-02 collaborations. The spectra of positrons from annihilations into the leptonic…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-12-31 Vassilis C. Spanos

The AMS-02 experiment is measuring the high energy charged cosmic rays with unprecedented accuracy. We explore the possibility of determining the cosmic-ray propagation models using the AMS-02 data $alone$. A global Bayesian analysis of the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-09-30 Hong-Bo Jin , Yue-Liang Wu , Yu-Feng Zhou

The AMS experiment onboard the International Space Station has recently provided cosmic ray electron and positron data with unprecedented precision in the range from 0.5 to 350 GeV. The observed rise in the positron fraction at energies…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-10-29 Lars Bergstrom , Torsten Bringmann , Ilias Cholis , Dan Hooper , Christoph Weniger

Cosmic rays are an important tool to study dark matter annihilation in our Galaxy. Recently, a possible hint for dark matter annihilation was found in the antiproton spectrum measured by AMS-02, even though the result might be affected by…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-05-23 Michael Korsmeier , Fiorenza Donato , Nicolao Fornengo

Cosmic-ray observations provide a powerful probe of dark matter annihilation in the Galaxy. In this paper we derive constraints on heavy dark matter from the recent precise AMS-02 antiproton data. We consider all possible annihilation…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-04-23 Alessandro Cuoco , Jan Heisig , Michael Korsmeier , Michael Krämer

Annihilation of dark matter particles in cosmological halos (including a halo of the Milky Way) contributes to the diffuse gamma-ray background (DGRB). As this contribution will appear anisotropic in the sky, one can use the angular power…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-07-31 Shin'ichiro Ando , Eiichiro Komatsu

If sub-GeV Dark matter(DM) annihilates to the charged particles such as $e^+ e^-$, $\mu^+ \mu^-$, or $\pi^+ \pi^-$, it generates an additional source of electrons and positrons in the cosmic ray (CR) population within our Milky Way. During…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-12-10 Guansen Wang , Bing-Yu Su , Lei Zu , Lei Feng

Using the updated proton and helium fluxes just released by the AMS-02 experiment we reevaluate the secondary astrophysical antiproton to proton ratio and its uncertainties, and compare it with the ratio preliminarly reported by AMS-02. We…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-09-30 Gaëlle Giesen , Mathieu Boudaud , Yoann Genolini , Vivian Poulin , Marco Cirelli , Pierre Salati , Pasquale D. Serpico

We revisit the model proposed earlier to account for the observed increase in the positron fraction in cosmic rays with increasing energy, in the light of new data from the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS-02) experiment. The model accounts…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-11-29 Philipp Mertsch , Subir Sarkar

Annihilation of light dark matter of $m_{\rm DM} \approx (10-40)$ GeV into the Standard Model fermions has been suggested as a possible origin of the gamma-ray excess at GeV energies in the Fermi-LAT data. In this paper, we examine possible…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-19 Kyoungchul Kong , Jong-Chul Park

Precise measurements of spectra of cosmic ray electrons and positrons can effectively probe the nature of dark matter (DM) particles. In a class of models where DM particles initially annihilate into a pair of intermediate particles which…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-09-26 Lei Zu , Cun Zhang , Lei Feng , Qiang Yuan , Yi-Zhong Fan

The interpretation of data from indirect detection experiments searching for dark matter annihilations requires computationally expensive simulations of cosmic-ray propagation. In this work we present a new method based on Recurrent Neural…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-12-21 Felix Kahlhoefer , Michael Korsmeier , Michael Krämer , Silvia Manconi , Kathrin Nippel

Cosmic-ray positrons have long been considered a powerful probe of dark matter annihilation. In particular, myriad studies of the unexpected rise in the positron fraction have debated its dark matter or pulsar origins. In this paper, we…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-01-07 Isabelle John , Tim Linden

We present a novel determination of the astrophysical uncertainties associated to the secondary antiproton flux originating from cosmic-ray spallation on the interstellar gas. We select a set of propagation models compatible with the recent…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-02-04 Carmelo Evoli , Daniele Gaggero , Dario Grasso

The AMS-02 collaboration has recently released data on the positron fraction $e^+/(e^-+e^+)$ up to energies of about 350 GeV. If one insists on interpreting the observed excess as a dark matter signal, then we find it is best described by a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-05-06 Andrea De Simone , Antonio Riotto , Wei Xue

Recent studies of radio data put strong constraints on annihilation cross section for dark matter. In this article, we provide the first analysis of using M33 radio data in constraining annihilating dark matter. The resulting constraints of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-10-24 Man Ho Chan

AMS-02 has reached the sensitivity to probe canonical thermal WIMPs by their annihilation into antiprotons. Due to the high precision of the data, uncertainties in the astrophysical background have become the most limiting factor for…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-02-14 Annika Reinert , Martin Wolfgang Winkler