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We consider indirect detection of meta-stable dark matter particles decaying into a stable neutral particle and a pair of standard model fermions. Due to the softer energy spectra from the three-body decay, such models could potentially…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-03-23 Hsin-Chia Cheng , Wei-Chih Huang , Xiaoyuan Huang , Ian Low , Yue-Lin Sming Tsai , Qiang Yuan

In light of the first measurement of the positron fraction by the AMS-02 experiment, we perform a detailed global analysis on the interpretation of the latest data of PAMELA, Fermi-LAT, and AMS-02 in terms of dark matter (DM) annihilation…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-15 Hong-Bo Jin , Yue-Liang Wu , Yu-Feng Zhou

We propose to test the dark matter (DM) interpretation of the positron excess observed by the PAMELA cosmic-ray (CR) detector through the identification of a Galactic diffuse gamma-ray component associated to DM-induced prompt and radiative…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2009-09-01 Marco Regis , Piero Ullio

We use multi-component decaying dark matter (DM) scenario to explain the possible cosmic ray excesses in the positron fraction recently confirmed by AMS-02 and the total $e^+ +e^-$ flux observed by Fermi-LAT. In the two-component DM models,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-12-01 Chao-Qiang Geng , Da Huang , Lu-Hsing Tsai

The possibility of explaining the positron and electron excess recently found by the PAMELA and ATIC collaborations in terms of dark matter (DM) annihilation has attracted considerable attention. Models surviving bounds from, e.g,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-04-15 Lars Bergstrom , Gianfranco Bertone , Torsten Bringmann , Joakim Edsjo , Marco Taoso

The overabundance of high-energy cosmic positrons, observed by PAMELA and AMS-02, can be considered as the consequence of dark matter decays or annihilations. We show that recent FERMI/LAT measurements of the isotropic diffuse gamma-ray…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-07-11 Maxim Laletin

We perform a detailed quantitative analysis of the recent AMS-02 electron and positron data. We investigate the interplay between the emission from primary astrophysical sources, namely Supernova Remnants and Pulsar Wind Nebulae, and the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-07-14 Mattia Di Mauro , Fiorenza Donato , Nicolao Fornengo , Andrea Vittino

Secondary positrons are produced by spallation of cosmic rays within the interstellar gas. Measurements have been typically expressed in terms of the positron fraction, which exhibits an increase above 10 GeV. Many scenarios have been…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-06 T. Delahaye , F. Donato , N. Fornengo , J. Lavalle , R. Lineros , P. Salati , R. Taillet , .

Dark Matter annihilation (DMA) may yield an excess of gamma rays and antimatter particles, like antiprotons and positrons, above the background from cosmic ray interactions. The excess of diffuse Galactic Gamma Rays from EGRET shows all the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-05-13 W. de Boer

Astrophysical and cosmological observations do not require the dark matter particles to be absolutely stable. If they are indeed unstable, their decay into positrons might occur at a sufficiently large rate to allow the indirect detection…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-05-05 Alejandro Ibarra , David Tran

The annihilation of dark matter (DM) in the Galaxy could produce specific imprints on the spectra of antimatter species in Galactic cosmic rays, which could be detected by upcoming experiments such as PAMELA and AMS02. Recent studies show…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 P. Brun , G. Bertone , J. Lavalle , P. Salati , R. Taillet

If dark matter (DM) annihilation accounts for the tantalizing excess of cosmic ray electron/positrons, as reported by the PAMELA, ATIC, HESS and FERMI observatories, then the implied annihilation cross section must be relatively large. This…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2012-03-15 A. A. El-Zant , S. Khalil , H. Okada

The excesses of the cosmic positron fraction recently measured by PAMELA and the electron spectra by ATIC, PPB-BETS, Fermi and H.E.S.S. indicate the existence of primary electron and positron sources. The possible explanations include dark…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-09-02 Juan Zhang , Xiao-jun Bi , Jia Liu , Si-Ming Liu , Peng-fei Yin , Qiang Yuan , Shou-hua Zhu

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

The cosmic-ray excess observed by PAMELA in the positron fraction and by FERMI and HESS in the electron + positron flux can be interpreted in terms of DM annihilations or decays into leptonic final states. Final states into tau's or 4mu…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-02-24 Patrick Meade , Michele Papucci , Alessandro Strumia , Tomer Volansky

Gamma rays and microwave observations of the Galactic Center and surrounding areas indicate the presence of anomalous emission, whose origin remains ambiguous. The possibility of dark matter (DM) annihilation explaining both signals through…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-04-28 Andrey E. Egorov , Jennifer M. Gaskins , Elena Pierpaoli , Davide Pietrobon

In a Dark left-right gauge model, the neutral component of right-handed lepton doublet is odd under generalized R-parity and thus the lightest one serves as the dark matter (DM) candidate. The coannihilation of the dark matter with the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-04-20 Tanushree Basak , Subhendra Mohanty , Gaurav Tomar

The positron fraction in cosmic rays was found to be steadily increasing in function of energy, above $\sim$10 GeV. This behaviour contradicts standard astrophysical mechanisms, in which positrons are secondary particles, produced in the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-10-27 Mathieu Boudaud

The excesses in the electron and positron spectra observed by many experiments, such as PAMELA and AMS-02, have sparked significant theoretical investigation. It is not easy to distinguish the two primary hypotheses dark matter…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-11-07 Xing-Jian Lv , Xiao-Jun Bi , Kun Fang , Peng-Fei Yin , Meng-Jie Zhao

We reconsider the proposal of excited dark matter (DM) as an explanation for excess 511 keV gamma rays from positrons in the galactic center. We quantitatively compute the cross section for DM annihilation to nearby excited states, mediated…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-11-20 Fang Chen , James M. Cline , Anthony Fradette , Andrew R. Frey , Charles Rabideau