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The recently observed excess in gamma-ray signal near the Galactic center suggests that dark matter particles may annihilate into charged fermions that produce gamma-ray to be observed. In this paper, we consider a leptonic dark matter,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-09-29 Jongkuk Kim , Jong-Chul Park , Seong Chan Park

Cosmic rays of energies up to a few PeV are believed to be of galactic origin, yet individual sources have still not been firmly identified. Due to inelastic collisions with the interstellar gas, cosmic-ray nuclei produce a diffuse flux of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-09-08 Anton Stall , Leonard Kaiser , Philipp Mertsch

Several independent observations of the galactic core suggest hitherto unexplained sources of energy. The most well known case is the 511 keV line which has proven very difficult to explain with conventional astrophysical positron sources.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-23 Kyle Lawson , Ariel R. Zhitnitsky

We examine the possibility of a dark matter (DM) contribution to the recently observed gamma-ray spectrum seen in the M31 galaxy. In particular, we apply limits on Weakly Interacting Massive Particle DM annihilation cross-sections derived…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-10-17 Geoff Beck , Sergio Colafrancesco

The origin of the diffuse gamma-ray background (DGRB), the one that remains after subtracting all individual sources from observed gamma-ray sky, is unknown. The DGRB possibly encompasses contributions from different source populations such…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-05-02 Saqib Hussain , Rafael Alves Batista , Elisabete M. de Gouveia Dal Pino , Klaus Dolag

We propose a novel mechanism enabling us to have a continuum bump as a signature of gamma-ray excess in indirect detection experiments of dark matter (DM), postulating a generic dark sector having (at least) two DM candidates. With the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-02-25 Doojin Kim , Jong-Chul Park

Recently there has been a hint of a gamma-ray line at 130 GeV originated from the galactic centre after the analysis of the Fermi-LAT satellite data. Being monochromatic in nature, it rules out the possibility of having its astrophysical…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-12-25 Anirban Biswas , Debasish Majumdar , Arunansu Sil , Pijushpani Bhattacharjee

Fifteen years of the Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) data in the halo region of the Milky Way (MW) are analyzed to search for gamma rays from dark matter annihilation. Gamma-ray maps within the region of interest ($|l| \le 60^\circ$,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-11-25 Tomonori Totani

Recently it was shown that the excess of diffuse Galactic gamma rays above 1 GeV could be interpreted as a Dark Matter annihilation signal. From the spectral shape of the excess it is possible to determine a range for the allowed WIMP mass…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-10-25 Christian Sander

Recent COMPTEL data analysis reveals a $\sim$ 2 MeV continuum excess whose spatial distribution closely matches the long-standing 511 keV line observed by INTEGRAL/SPI, indicating a common population of low-energy positrons that is…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-01-16 Shyam Balaji , Damon Cleaver , Pedro De la Torre Luque

It was found in the Fermi-LAT data that there is an extended $\gamma$-ray excess in the Galactic center region. The proposed sources to be responsible for the excess include the dark matter annihilation or an astrophysical alternative from…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-08-05 Qiang Yuan , Bing Zhang

The multi-TeV $\gamma$-rays from the Galactic Center (GC) have a cutoff at tens of TeV, whereas the diffuse emission has no such cutoff, which is regarded as an indication of PeV proton acceleration by the HESS experiment. It is important…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-04-12 Yi-Qing Guo , Zhen Tian , Zhen Wang , Hai-Jin Li , Tian-Lu Chen

Observations of diffuse Galactic gamma ray emission (DGE) by the Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) allow a detailed study of cosmic rays and the interstellar medium. However, diffuse emission models of the inner Galaxy underpredict the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-04-03 Lin F. Yang , Joseph Silk , Alexander S. Szalay , Rosemary F. G. Wyse , Brandon Bozek , Piero Madau

The self-annihilation of dark matter particles with mass in the MeV range can produce gamma rays via prompt or secondary radiation. The annihilation rate for such light dark matter particles is however tightly constrained by cosmic…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-10-04 Alma X. Gonzalez-Morales , Stefano Profumo , Javier Reynoso-Córdova

Many models currently exist which attempt to interpret the excess of gamma rays emanating from the Galactic Center in terms of annihilating or decaying dark matter. These models typically exhibit a variety of complicated cascade mechanisms…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-04-11 Kimberly K. Boddy , Keith R. Dienes , Doojin Kim , Jason Kumar , Jong-Chul Park , Brooks Thomas

The public data from the EGRET space telescope on diffuse Galactic gamma rays in the energy range from 0.1 to 10 GeV are reanalyzed with the purpose of searching for signals of Dark Matter annihilation (DMA). The analysis confirms the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 W. de Boer , C. Sander , V. Zhukov , A. V. Gladyshev , D. I. Kazakov

High-energy (HE) and very high-energy (VHE) gamma-ray observations from the Galactic center (GC) detected extended emission correlated with the morphology of the central molecular zone (CMZ). Emission in both bands is expected to be…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-10-01 Andrés Scherer , Jorge Cuadra

We present a new Fermi-LAT analysis of the Galactic-center excess (GCE) designed to substantially reduce the dominant systematic uncertainties associated with interstellar-emission and source modeling in the inner Galaxy. Using an optimized…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-05-29 Mattia Di Mauro

If sub-GeV Dark matter(DM) annihilates to the charged particles such as $e^+ e^-$, $\mu^+ \mu^-$, or $\pi^+ \pi^-$, it generates an additional source of electrons and positrons in the cosmic ray (CR) population within our Milky Way. During…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-12-10 Guansen Wang , Bing-Yu Su , Lei Zu , Lei Feng

We explore the explanation of the Fermi Galactic Center Excess (GCE) in the Next-to-Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model. We systematically consider various experimental constraints including the Dark Matter (DM) relic density, DM direct…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-03-11 Junjie Cao , Liangliang Shang , Peiwen Wu , Jin Min Yang , Yang Zhang