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We present constraints on the density of halo dark matter candidates within the solar circle based on the anisotropy in the high energy gamma-ray background. The known galactic components of the gamma-ray background, in particular the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 R. Chary , E. L. Wright

Recently, gamma-ray emission in the direction of Coma, with a TS value of $\sim 40$, has been reported. In this work we will discuss the possibility of such a residual emission coming from dark matter annihilation. Our results show that the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-01-08 Yun-Feng Liang , Zi-Qing Xia , Shao-Qiang Xi , Shang Li , Zhao-Qiang Shen , Yi-Zhong Fan

Recent evidence for an excess of gamma rays in the GeV energy range about the Galactic Center have refocused attention on models of dark matter in the low mass regime ($m_\chi \lesssim m_Z/2$). Because this is an experimentally well-trod…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-08-21 Jia Liu , Neal Weiner , Wei Xue

We consider the diffuse gamma ray data from FERMI first year observations and compare them to the gamma ray fluxes predicted by Dark Matter annihilation or decay (both from prompt emission and from Inverse Compton Scattering), for different…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-13 Marco Cirelli , Paolo Panci , Pasquale D. Serpico

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

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

A number of theories, spanning a wide range of mass scales, predict dark matter candidates that have lifetimes much longer than the age of the universe, yet may produce a significant flux of gamma rays in their decays today. We constrain…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Hasan Yuksel , Matthew D. Kistler

We set conservative constraints on decaying dark matter particles with masses spanning a very wide range ($10^4-10^{16}$ GeV). For this we use multimessenger observations of cosmic-ray (CR) protons/antiprotons, electrons/positrons,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-02-03 Koji Ishiwata , Oscar Macias , Shin'ichiro Ando , Makoto Arimoto

Recent studies on cosmic rays (CRs) have reported the possibility of an excess in the antiproton flux around $10-20$ GeV. However, the associated systematic uncertainties have impeded the interpretation of these findings. In this study, we…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-05-31 Xing-Jian Lv , Xiao-Jun Bi , Kun Fang , Peng-Fei Yin , Meng-Jie Zhao

We consider the possibility that the cosmological dark matter consists of particles very close in mass to new colored particles below the TeV scale. While such a scenario is inherently difficult to directly confirm at colliders, we find…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2012-03-05 Masaki Asano , Torsten Bringmann , Christoph Weniger

Recent gamma-ray and radio studies have obtained some stringent constraints on annihilating dark matter properties. However, only a few studies have focussed on using X-ray data to constrain annihilating dark matter. In this article, we…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-08-15 Man Ho Chan , Chak Man Lee

A series of experiments measuring high-energy cosmic rays have recently reported strong indications for the existence of an excess of high-energy electrons and positrons. If interpreted in terms of the decay of dark matter particles, the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-01-15 Alejandro Ibarra , David Tran , Christoph Weniger

A gamma-ray excess over background has been claimed in the inner regions of the Galaxy, triggering some excitement about the possibility that the gamma rays originate from the annihilation of dark matter particles. We point out that the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-08-01 Eric Carlson , Stefano Profumo

Motivated by a recent detection of 511 keV photons from the center of our Galaxy, we calculate the spectrum of the soft gamma-ray background of the redshifted 511 keV photons from cosmological halos. Annihilation of dark matter particles…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Kyungjin Ahn , Eiichiro Komatsu

The origin of an anomalous excess of high-energy (about 100 GeV and higher) positrons in cosmic rays is one of the rare problems in this field, which is proposed to be solved with dark matter (DM). Attempts to solve this problem are faced…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-10-12 Ramin Barak , Konstantin Belotsky , Ekaterina Shlepkina

Constraints are placed on the spin-independent interaction cross section of dark matter with regular matter by refining two methods. First, dark matter--cosmic ray interactions are considered, wherein cosmic ray protons collide with dark…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 Gregory D. Mack , Adithya Manohar

We consider the process of scattering of Galactic cosmic-ray electrons and protons off of dark matter with the radiation of a final-state photon. This process provides a novel way to search for Galactic dark matter with gamma rays. We argue…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-05-28 Stefano Profumo , Lorenzo Ubaldi

In addition to gamma-rays, dark matter annihilation products can include energetic electrons which inverse Compton scatter with the cosmic microwave background to produce a diffuse extragalactic background of gamma-rays and X-rays. In…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-13 Alexander V. Belikov , Dan Hooper

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

The AMS-02 collaboration has just released the cosmic antiproton to proton ratio $\bar{p}/p$ with a high precision up to $\sim 450$ GeV. In this work, we calculate the secondary antiprotons generated by cosmic ray interactions with the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-04-28 Su-Jie Lin , Xiao-Jun Bi , Peng-Fei Yin , Zhao-Huan Yu