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We analyze publicly available Fermi-LAT high-energy gamma-ray data and confirm the existence of clear spectral feature peaked at E=130GeV. Scanning over the Galaxy we identify several disconnected regions where the observed excess…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2012-10-31 Elmo Tempel , Andi Hektor , Martti Raidal

We propose to investigate a secluded WIMP dark matter model consisting of neutral fermions as the dark matter candidate and a Proca-Wentzel (PW) field as a mediator. In the model that we consider here, dark matter WIMPs interact with…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-12-09 E. C. F. S. Fortes , V. Pleitez , F. W. Stecker

The Fermi-LAT data appear to have an excess of gamma rays from the inner 150 pc of the Galactic Center. The main explanations proposed for this are: an unresolved population of millisecond pulsars (MSPs), dark matter (DM) annihilation, and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-03-19 Oscar Macias , Chris Gordon

Simple models of weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs) predict dark matter annihilations into pairs of electroweak gauge bosons, Higgses or tops, which through their subsequent cascade decays produce a spectrum of gamma rays.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-05-20 Prateek Agrawal , Brian Batell , Patrick J. Fox , Roni Harnik

We propose a fermionic dark matter model by extending Standard Model with a Dirac fermion and a real pseudoscalar. The fermion dark matter particle interacts with the Standard Model sector via the Higgs portal through a dimension five…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-06-05 Avik Paul , Debasish Majumdar , Amit Dutta Banik

Inspired by the excess of gamma rays from the Galactic Center, we confront a number of simplified dark matter models with experimental data. Assuming a single dark matter particle coupled to standard matter via a spin-0 mediator, we compare…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-10-01 Csaba Balázs , Tong Li

Studies of Fermi-Large Area Telescope (LAT) data coincident with dwarf spheroidal satellite galaxies (dSphs) of the Milky Way (MW) have put the most stringent constraints on models of annihilating dark matter (DM) with candidate masses in…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-05-26 A. Circiello , M. Di Mauro , M. Ajello , C. Karwin , A. Drlica-Wagner , M. Á. Sánchez-Conde

The diffuse Galactic $\gamma$-rays from EGRET observation shows excesses above 1 GeV in comparison with the expectations from conventional Galactic cosmic ray (CR) propagation model. In the work we try to solve the "GeV excess" problem by…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Xiao-Jun Bi , Juan Zhang , Qiang Yuan , Jian-Li Zhang , HongSheng Zhao

We conduct a comprehensive analysis of potential annihilation processes of light dark matter (DM) in minimal Higgs portal models near supermassive black hole (Sgr A$^{\star}$) in the Galactic Center, considering interactions between DM…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-01-14 Chih-Ting Lu , Xiao-Yi Luo , Zi-Qing Xia

We incorporate Milky Way dark matter halo profile uncertainties, as well as an accounting of diffuse gamma-ray emission uncertainties in dark matter annihilation models for the Galactic Center Extended gamma-ray excess (GCE) detected by the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-04-20 Kevork N. Abazajian , Ryan E. Keeley

We propose a renormalizable dark matter model in which a fermionic dark matter (DM) candidate communicates with the standard model particles through two distinct portals: Higgs and vector portals. The dark sector is charged under a $U(1)'$…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-07-08 Karim Ghorbani , Hossein Ghorbani

Semi-annihilation is a generic feature of dark matter theories with symmetries larger than Z2. We investigate two examples with multi-component dark sectors comprised of an SU(2)L singlet or triplet fermion besides a scalar singlet. These…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-02-17 Yi Cai , Andrew Paul Spray

The gamma-ray excess observed by the Fermi-LAT in the Galactic Center can be interpreted by the dark matter annihilation to $b\bar{b}$ via a light pseudoscalar in the NMSSM. It is interesting to note that the corresponding singlet scalar is…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-07-15 Xiao-Jun Bi , Ligong Bian , Weicong Huang , Jing Shu , Peng-Fei Yin

The recently observed excess in gamma-ray signal near the Galactic center suggests that dark matter particles may annihilate into charged fermions that produce gamma-ray to be observed. In this paper, we consider a leptonic dark matter,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-09-29 Jongkuk Kim , Jong-Chul Park , Seong Chan Park

The $\gamma$-ray and neutrino emissions from dark matter (DM) annihilation in galaxy clusters are studied. After about one year operation of Fermi-LAT, several nearby clusters are reported with stringent upper limits of GeV $\gamma$-ray…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-03-13 Qiang Yuan , Peng-Fei Yin , Xiao-Jun Bi , Xin-Min Zhang , Shou-Hua Zhu

There is evidence for a spectral line at $E_\gamma\approx 130$ GeV in the Fermi-LAT data that can be explained as dark mater particles annihilating into photons. We review a well known dark matter model that consists in a singlet Dirac…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-10-13 T. H. Franarin , C. A. Z. Vasconcellos , D. Hadjimichef

This study reanalyzes the detection prospects of dark matter (DM) annihilation signals in the Galactic Center, focusing on velocity-dependent dynamics within a spike density near the supermassive black hole (Sgr~A$^{\star}$). We investigate…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-10-25 MeiWen Yang , Zhi-Qi Guo , Xiao-Yi Luo , Zhao-Qiang Shen , Zi-Qing Xia , Chih-Ting Lu , Yue-Lin Sming Tsai , Yi-Zhong Fan

Recent study of gamma rays originating from the region of galactic centre has confirmed an anomalous $\gamma$-ray excess within the energy range 1-3 GeV. This can be explained as the consequence of pair annihilation of a 31-40 GeV dark…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-08-26 Amit Dutta Banik , Debasish Majumdar

Dark matter (DM) in the Milky Way halo may annihilate or decay to photons, producing monochromatic gamma rays. We search for DM-induced spectral lines using 14 years of data from the Large Area Telescope onboard the Fermi Gamma-ray Space…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-06-07 Joshua W. Foster , Yujin Park , Benjamin R. Safdi , Yotam Soreq , Weishuang Linda Xu

We study diffuse gamma-ray emission at intermediate Galactic latitudes measured by the Fermi Large Area Telescope with the aim of searching for a signal from dark matter annihilation or decay. In the absence of a robust dark matter signal,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-04-10 G. Zaharijas , J. Conrad , A. Cuoco , Z. Yang