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Dark matter particles need not be completely stable, and in fact they may be decaying now. We consider this possibility in the frameworks of universal extra dimensions and supersymmetry with very late decays of WIMPs to Kaluza-Klein…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-23 Jose A. R. Cembranos , Jonathan L. Feng , Louis E. Strigari

There is a growing interest in the possibility that dark matter could be formed of weakly interacting particles with a mass in the 100 GeV - 2 TeV range, and supersymmetric particles are favorite candidates. If they constitute the dark halo…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-22 M. Urban , A. Bouquet , B. Degrange , P. Fleury , J. Kaplan , A. L. Melchior , E. Paré

Exploring the realm of Dark Matter research, Light DM, which has a mass in the range of 1 MeV to 1 GeV, is a fascinating topic both theoretically and experimentally. We assume that the light dark matter is composed of complex scalars and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-04-05 Jun Guo , Lei Wu , Bin Zhu

I give a brief review of high energy gamma-ray signatures of dark matter. The decay of massive $X$-particles and subsequent hadronization have been suggested as the origin of the highest energy cosmic rays. Propagation over cosmological…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 R. J. Protheroe

Nearby sources of cosmic rays up to a ZeV(=10^21 eV) could be observed with a multi-messenger approach including secondary gamma-rays and neutrinos. If cosmic rays above ~10^18 eV are produced in magnetized environments such as galaxy…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Eric Armengaud , Guenter Sigl , Francesco Miniati

The nuclear $\gamma$-ray lines in the MeV range of the electromagnetic spectrum hold a vast variety of astrophysical, particle-physical, and fundamental physical information that is otherwise extreme difficult to access. MeV $\gamma$-ray…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-02-05 Thomas Siegert , Francesca Calore , Pierre Jean , Mark Leising , Nicolas de Séréville , Gerald H. Share , Vincent Tatischeff , Wei Wang , Meng-Ru Wu

Existing data hints that high energy cosmic ray experiments may offer the most promissing shot at finding a dark matter particle. A search in the PeV mass range is suggested, where the discovery of such a particle might help explain the GZK…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-04-17 Yukio Tomozawa

We outline the science opportunities in the areas of searches for dark matter and new physics offered by a proposed future MeV gamma-ray telescope, the Galactic Explorer with a Coded Aperture Mask Compton Telescope (GECCO). We point out…

Atmospheric Cerenkov Telescopes, including HESS and MAGIC, have detected a spectrum of gamma-rays from the galactic center region which extends from $\sim$200 GeV or lower, to at least $\sim$10 TeV. Although the source of this radiation is…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Gabrijela Zaharijas , Dan Hooper

The H.E.S.S. experiment is an array of four identical imaging atmospheric Cherenkov telescopes in the Southern hemisphere, designed to observe very high energy gamma-rays (E > 100 GeV). These high energy gamma-rays can be used to search for…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2011-11-28 A. Viana

In a broad class of consistent models, MeV to few-GeV dark matter interacts with ordinary matter through weakly coupled GeV-scale mediators. We show that a suitable meter-scale (or smaller) detector situated downstream of an electron…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-02-05 Eder Izaguirre , Gordan Krnjaic , Philip Schuster , Natalia Toro

New sub-GeV gauge forces ("dark photons") that kinetically mix with the photon provide a promising scenario for MeV-GeV dark matter, and are the subject of a program of searches at fixed-target and collider facilities around the world. In…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-12-04 Miriam D. Diamond , Philip Schuster

Recent ground based and space telescopes that detect high energy photons from a few up to hundreds of gigaelectron volts (GeV) have opened a new window on the universe. However, because of the relatively poor angular resolution of these…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-03 I. F. Mirabel

We study the prospects for detecting gamma-rays from decaying Dark Matter (DM), focusing in particular on gravitino DM in R-parity breaking vacua. Given the substantially different angular distribution of the predicted gamma-ray signal with…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-01-06 Gianfranco Bertone , Wilfried Buchmuller , Laura Covi , Alejandro Ibarra

newASTROGAM is a breakthrough mission concept for the study of the non-thermal Universe from space with gamma rays in the energy range from 15 keV to 3 GeV. It is based on advanced space-proven detector technologies, which will achieve…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-14 D. Berge , M. N. Mazziotta , M. Tavani , V. Tatischeff , U. Oberlack

The GeV$-$TeV $\gamma-$ray line signal is the smoking gun signature of the dark matter annihilation or decay. The detection of such a signal is one of the main targets of some space-based telescopes, including Fermi-LAT and the upcoming…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-18 Tong-Suo Lu , Tie-Kuang Dong , Jian Wu

We discuss the potential for the detection of dark matter and the characterization of its particle nature via the observation of dark matter subhalos. Specifically, we discuss the search for dark matter Galactic subhalos in the gamma-ray…

With the discovery of evidence for neutrino mass, a vivid gamma ray sky at multi-TeV energies, and cosmic ray particles with unexpectedly high energies, astroparticle physics currently runs through an era of rapid progress and moving…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-12-03 Karl Mannheim

The nature of Dark Matter (DM) is one of the most debated questions of contemporary physics. Ground-based arrays of Cherenkov telescopes such as the High Energy Spectroscopic System (H.E.S.S.) search for DM signatures through the detection…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-06-12 Lucia Rinchiuso , H. E. S. S. Collaboration

Indirect searches for Dark Matter (DM) particles with mass in the MeV -- GeV scale have received significant attention lately. Pair-annihilations of such DM particles in the Galaxy can give rise to (at the same time) MeV to GeV…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-01-30 Marco Cirelli , Arpan Kar , Halim Shaikh