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We present here a study of the direct and indirect detection prospects of a generic dark matter simplified model, in which the Majorana dark matter interacts only with a Standard Model lepton and a pair of uncolored mixing scalar mediators.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-11-23 Fei Teng

This paper summarizes recents results in gamma-ray astronomy, most of which were derived with data from ground-based gamma-ray detectors. Many of the contributions presented at this conference involve multiwavelength studies which combine…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Martin Pohl

We present a novel way of probing non-gravitational dark matter interactions: dark astronomy, which leverages the dark radiation emitted by dissipative dark sectors. If the mediator of the dark matter self interactions is a dark photon with…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-12-11 Gonzalo Alonso-Álvarez , David Curtin

We analyze the Sun as a source for the indirect detection of dark matter through a search for gamma rays from the solar disk. Capture of dark matter by elastic interactions with the solar nuclei followed by annihilation to long-lived…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-12-26 A. Albert , R. Alfaro , C. Alvarez , R. Arceo , J. C. Arteaga-Velázquez , D. Avila Rojas , H. A. Ayala Solares , E. Belmont-Moreno , S. Y. BenZvi , C. Brisbois , K. S. Caballero-Mora , T. Capistràn , A. Carramiñana , S. Casanova , M. Castillo , J. Cotzomi , S. Coutiño de León , C. De León , E. De la Fuente , S. Dichiara , B. L. Dingus , M. A. DuVernois , J. C. Díaz-Vélez , K. Engel , O. Enríquez-Rivera , C. Espinoza , H. Fleischhack , N. Fraija , J. A. García-González , F. Garfias , M. M. González , J. A. Goodman , Z. Hampel-Arias , J. P. Harding , S. Hernandez , B. Hona , F. Hueyotl-Zahuantitla , P. Hüntemeyer , A. Iriarte , A. Jardin-Blicq , V. Joshi , S. Kaufmann , H. León Vargas , G. Luis-Raya , J. Lundeen , R. López-Coto , K. Malone , S. S. Marinelli , O. Martinez , I. Martinez-Castellanos , J. Martínez-Castro , P. Miranda-Romagnoli , E. Moreno , M. Mostafá , A. Nayerhoda , L. Nellen , M. Newbold , M. U. Nisa , R. Noriega-Papaqui , J. Pretz , E. G. Pérez-Pérez , Z. Ren , C. D. Rho , C. Rivière , D. Rosa-González , M. Rosenberg , E. Ruiz-Velasco , H. Salazar , F. Salesa Greus , A. Sandoval , M. Schneider , M. Seglar Arroyo , G. Sinnis , A. J. Smith , P. Surajbali , I. Taboada , O. Tibolla , K. Tollefson , I. Torres , L. Villaseñor , T. Weisgarber , S. Westerhoff , I. G. Wisher , J. Wood , T. Yapici , A. Zepeda , H. Zhou , J. D. Álvarez , J. F. Beacom , R. K. Leane , T. Linden , K. C. Y. Ng , A. H. G. Peter , B. Zhou

Direct detection experiments have started to explore dark matter scattering off electrons and nucleons through light mediators. Mediators with sub-keV masses are efficiently produced in the Sun and can be absorbed in the same detectors that…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-02-27 Pieter Braat , Anh Vu Phan , Marieke Postma , Susanne Westhoff

Extraterrestrial gamma-ray astronomy is now a source of new knowledge in the fields of astrophysics, cosmic-ray physics, and the nature of dark matter. The next absolutely necessary step in the development of extraterrestrial high-energy…

We introduce a new type of gamma-ray spectral feature, which we denominate gamma-ray triangle. This spectral feature arises in scenarios where dark matter self-annihilates via a chiral interaction into two Dirac fermions, which subsequently…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-11-15 Alejandro Ibarra , Sergio Lopez-Gehler , Emiliano Molinaro , Miguel Pato

The Sun is an excellent laboratory for astroparticle physics but remains poorly understood at GeV--TeV energies. Despite the immense relevance for both cosmic-ray propagation and dark matter searches, only in recent years has the Sun become…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-04-02 M. U. Nisa , J. F. Beacom , S. Y. BenZvi , R. K. Leane , T. Linden , K. C. Y. Ng , A. H. G. Peter , B. Zhou

Astrophysical searches for gamma rays are one of the main strategies to probe the annihilation or decay of dark matter particles. We present a new class of distinct sub-GeV spectral features that generically appear in kinematical situations…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-02-20 Torsten Bringmann , Ahmad Galea , Andrzej Hryczuk , Christoph Weniger

If dark matter is composed of weakly interacting particles with mass in the GeV-TeV range, their annihilation or decay may produce gamma rays that could be detected by gamma-ray telescopes. Observations of dwarf spheroidal satellite…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-04-30 Javier Rico

In the frame of indirect dark matter searches we investigate the flux of high-energy $\gamma$-ray photons produced by annihilation of dark matter in caustics within our Galaxy under the hypothesis that the bulk of dark matter is composed of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Lidia Pieri , Enzo Branchini

ALMA provides the necessary spatial, temporal and spectral resolution to explore central questions in contemporary solar physics with potentially far-reaching implications for stellar atmospheres and plasma physics. It can uniquely…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-02-24 Sven Wedemeyer , Tim Bastian , Roman Brajsa , Miroslav Barta , Masumi Shimojo , Antonio Hales , Pavel Yagoubov , Hugh Hudson

Tentative evidence for excess GeV-scale gamma rays from the galactic center has been corroborated by several groups, including the Fermi collaboration, on whose data the observation is based. Dark matter annihilation into standard model…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-10-21 James M. Cline , Grace Dupuis , Zuowei Liu , Wei Xue

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

ALMA will open a new chapter in the study of the Sun by providing a leap in spatial resolution and sensitivity compared to currently available mm wave- length observations. In preparation of ALMA, we have carried out a large number of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-12-15 Maria Loukitcheva , Sami K. Solanki , Stephen M. White , Mats Carlsson

Dark matter (DM) particles gravitationally captured by the Sun can accumulate in its core and subsequently annihilate, producing neutrino fluxes that may be detectable on Earth. The intensity of these fluxes is highly sensitive to the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-06-18 A. Carrillo-Monteverde , L. López-Lozano

We consider a self-interacting dark matter model in which the massive dark photon mediating the self-interaction decays to light dark fermions to avoid over-closing the universe. We find that if the model is constrained to explain the dark…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-07-05 Ran Huo , Manoj Kaplinghat , Zhen Pan , Hai-Bo Yu

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

Gamma-ray astronomy provides a direct window into the most violent, dynamic processes in the Universe. MeV gamma-ray astronomy in particular allows us to directly observe the process of chemical enrichment of the interstellar medium (ISM)…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-05-07 Fiona H. Panther