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Galactic diffuse continuum gamma-ray emission is intricately related to cosmic-ray physics and radio astronomy. We describe recent results from an approach which endeavours to take advantage of this. Information from cosmic-ray composition…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-12-13 A. W. Strong , I. V. Moskalenko , O. Reimer

Under the assumption that dark matter is made of new particles, annihilations of those are required to reproduce the correct dark matter abundance in the Universe. This process can occur in dense regions of our Galaxy such as the Galactic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-27 Pierre Brun

We present the first cosmological constraint on dark matter scattering with protons in the early Universe for the entire range of dark matter masses between 1 keV and 1 TeV. This constraint is derived from the Planck measurements of the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-09-05 Vera Gluscevic , Kimberly K. Boddy

PAMELA's observation that the cosmic ray positron fraction increases rapidly with energy implies the presence of primary sources of energetic electron-positron pairs. Of particular interest is the possibility that dark matter annihilations…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-11-20 Dan Hooper , Kathryn M. Zurek

Recently, constraints on bosonic asymmetric dark matter have been imposed based on the existence of old neutron stars excluding the dark matter masses in the range from $\sim 2$ keV up to several GeV. The constraints are based on the star…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-08-09 Chris Kouvaris , Peter Tinyakov

Past studies have identified a spatially extended excess of $\sim$1-3 GeV gamma rays from the region surrounding the Galactic Center, consistent with the emission expected from annihilating dark matter. We revisit and scrutinize this signal…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-02-24 Tansu Daylan , Douglas P. Finkbeiner , Dan Hooper , Tim Linden , Stephen K. N. Portillo , Nicholas L. Rodd , Tracy R. Slatyer

We analyze the first two years of data from the Fermi Gamma Ray Space Telescope from the direction of the inner 10 degrees around the Galactic Center with the intention of constraining, or finding evidence of, annihilating dark matter. We…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-03-17 Dan Hooper , Lisa Goodenough

Dark matter is poorly constrained by direct detection experiments at masses below 1 MeV. This is an important target for the next generation of experiments, and several methods have been proposed to probe this mass range. One class of such…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-07-31 Benjamin V. Lehmann , Stefano Profumo

If the dark matter is unstable, the decay of these particles throughout the universe and in the halo of the Milky Way could contribute significantly to the isotropic gamma-ray background (IGRB) as measured by Fermi. In this article, we…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-03-20 Carlos Blanco , Dan Hooper

The particle origin of dark matter (DM) is still one of the main puzzles in modern physics. One of the most promising search strategy to detect DM at laboratories is through the indirect search of cosmic particles that are produced from DM…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-05-04 Haoxiang Zhan

We consider a simple extension of the type-II two-Higgs-doublet model by introducing a real scalar as a candidate for dark matter in the present Universe. The main annihilation mode of the dark matter particle with a mass of around $31-40$…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-12-30 Nobuchika Okada , Osamu Seto

Galactic weak-scale Dark Matter (DM) particles annihilating into lepton-rich channels not only produce gamma-rays via prompt radiation but also generate abundant energetic electrons and positrons, which subsequently emit through…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-10-09 Marco Cirelli , Arpan Kar

The diffuse galactic EGRET gamma ray data show a clear excess for energies above 1 GeV in comparison with the expectations from conventional galactic models. The excess is seen with the same spectrum in all sky directions, as expected for…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-10 W. de Boer

We study the capabilities of the Fermi-LAT instrument on board of the Fermi mission to constrain particle dark matter properties, as annihilation cross section, mass and branching ratio into dominant annihilation channels, with gamma-ray…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-02-22 Nicolas Bernal , Sergio Palomares-Ruiz

Annihilations of weakly interacting dark matter particles provide an important signature for the possibility of indirect detection of dark matter in galaxy halos. These self-annihilations can be greatly enhanced in the vicinity of a massive…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 G. Bertone , G. Sigl , J. Silk

The first measurement on the antiproton to proton ratio made by the AMS-02 collaboration agrees with the expection from conventional cosmic-ray secondaries in the kinetic energy range $\sim 10-100$ GeV, which can be turned into stringent…

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

In hidden sector models, dark matter does not directly couple to the particle content of the Standard Model, strongly suppressing rates at direct detection experiments, while still allowing for large signals from annihilation. In this…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-08-25 Dan Hooper , Rebecca K. Leane , Yu-Dai Tsai , Shalma Wegsman , Samuel J. Witte

For any realistic halo profile, the Galactic Center is predicted to be the brightest source of gamma-rays from dark matter annihilations. Due in large part to uncertainties associated with the dark matter distribution and astrophysical…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-11 Dan Hooper , Chris Kelso , Farinaldo S. Queiroz

We perform a joint analysis of dwarf galaxy data from the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope in search of dark matter annihilation into a gamma-ray line. We employ a novel statistical method that takes into account the spatial and spectral…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2012-09-10 Alex Geringer-Sameth , Savvas M. Koushiappas

The public data from the EGRET space telescope on diffuse galactic gamma rays in the energy range from 0.1 to 10 GeV show an excess for energies above 1 GeV in comparison with the expectations from conventional galactic models. This excess…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 W. de Boer