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We study the annihilating dark matter contribution to the extra-galactic diffuse gamma-ray background spectrum, motivated by the recent observations of cosmic-ray positron/electron anomalies. The observed diffuse gamma-ray flux provides…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2009-09-02 Masahiro Kawasaki , Kazunori Kohri , Kazunori Nakayama

Dark matter annihilation is one of the leading explanations for the recently observed $e^\pm$ excesses in cosmic rays by PAMELA, ATIC, FERMI-LAT and HESS. Any dark matter annihilation model proposed to explain these data must also explain…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-04-29 Xiao-Jun Bi , Xiao-Gang He , Ernest Ma , Juan Zhang

In this work we continue our investigations of the possibility of explanation of the positron anomaly (PA) in cosmic rays with the help of annihilating or decaying dark matter (DM) component by varying its space distribution. In the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-12-19 K. M. Belotsky , F. V. Kostromin , M. L. Solovyov

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

Recently the AMS-02 experiment reported an excess of cosmic ray antiprotons over the expected astrophysical background. We interpret the excess as a signal from annihilating or decaying dark matter and find that the observed spectrum is…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-04-23 Koichi Hamaguchi , Takeo Moroi , Kazunori Nakayama

We propose a dark matter explanation to simultaneously account for the excess of antiproton-to-proton and positron power spectra observed in the AMS-02 experiment while having the right dark matter relic abundance and satisfying the current…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-24 Chuan-Hung Chen , Cheng-Wei Chiang , Takaaki Nomura

In this work we study the constraints on dark matter (DM) annihilation/decay from the Fermi-LAT Isotropic Gamma-Ray Background (IGRB) observation. We consider the contributions from both extragalactic and galactic DM components. For DM…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-04-26 Wei Liu , Xiao-Jun Bi , Su-Jie Lin , Peng-Fei Yin

The long standing anomaly in the positron flux as measured by the PAMELA and AMS-02 experiments could potentially be explained by dark matter (DM) annihilations. This scenario typically requires a large "boost factor" to be consistent with…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-12-12 Jatan Buch , Pranjal Ralegankar , Vikram Rentala

Semi-annihilation is a generic feature of particle dark matter that is most easily probed by cosmic ray experiments. We explore models where the semi-annihilation cross section is enhanced at late times and low temperatures by the presence…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-11-14 Yi Cai , Andrew Spray

Observations by ARCADE-2 and other telescopes sensitive to low frequency radiation have revealed the presence of an isotropic radio background with a hard spectral index. The intensity of this observed background is found to exceed the flux…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-05-30 Dan Hooper , Alexander V. Belikov , Tesla E. Jeltema , Tim Linden , Stefano Profumo , Tracy R. Slatyer

With the measurement of positron flux published recently by AMS-02 collaboration, we show how the leptophilic dark matter fits the observation. We obtain the percentages of different products of dark matter annihilation that can best…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-03-16 Qing-Hong Cao , Chuan-Ren Chen , Ti Gong

Recent measurements made by the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS) have detected accurate positron flux for energy range 1-1000 GeV. The energy spectrum can be best described by two source terms: the low-energy background diffusion term and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-12-03 Man Ho Chan , Chak Man Lee

We evaluate dark matter (DM) limits from cosmic-ray antiproton observations using the recent precise AMS-02 measurements. We properly take into account cosmic-ray propagation uncertainties fitting at the same time DM and propagation…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-05-15 Alessandro Cuoco , Michael Krämer , Michael Korsmeier

Recent studies indicate that thermally produced dark matter will form highly concentrated, low-mass cusps in the early universe that often survive until the present. While these cusps contain a small fraction of the dark matter, their high…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-04-15 M. Sten Delos , Michael Korsmeier , Axel Widmark , Carlos Blanco , Tim Linden , Simon D. M. White

The gamma-ray observation of dwarf spheroidal satellites (dSphs) is an ideal approach for probing the dark matter (DM) annihilation signature. The latest Fermi-LAT dSph searches have set stringent constraints on the velocity independent…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-05-09 Yi Zhao , Xiao-Jun Bi , Huan-Yu Jia , Peng-Fei Yin , Feng-Rong Zhu

Recently reported tentative evidence for a gamma-ray line in the Fermi-LAT data is of great potential interest for identifying the nature of dark matter. We compare the implications for decaying and annihilating dark matter taking the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-05 Wilfried Buchmuller , Mathias Garny

The AMS experiment onboard the International Space Station has recently provided cosmic ray electron and positron data with unprecedented precision in the range from 0.5 to 350 GeV. The observed rise in the positron fraction at energies…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-10-29 Lars Bergstrom , Torsten Bringmann , Ilias Cholis , Dan Hooper , Christoph Weniger

Annihilation of dark matter particles in cosmological halos (including a halo of the Milky Way) contributes to the diffuse gamma-ray background (DGRB). As this contribution will appear anisotropic in the sky, one can use the angular power…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-07-31 Shin'ichiro Ando , Eiichiro Komatsu

We study a simple extension of the Standard Model supplemented by an electroweak triplet scalar field to accommodate small neutrino masses by the type-II seesaw mechanism, while an additional singlet scalar field can play the role of cold…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-05-07 P. S. Bhupal Dev , Dilip Kumar Ghosh , Nobuchika Okada , Ipsita Saha

For the first time, the Fermi-LAT measured the angular power spectrum (APS) of anisotropies in the diffuse gamma-ray background. The data is found to be broadly compatible with a model with contributions from the point sources in the 1-year…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 Mattia Fornasa , Jesus Zavala , Miguel A. Sanchez-Conde , Francisco Prada , Mark Vogelsberger