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In the indirect detection of dark matter through its annihilation products, the signals depend on the square of the dark matter density, making precise knowledge of the distribution of dark matter in the Universe critical for robust…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Hasan Yuksel , Shunsaku Horiuchi , John F. Beacom , Shin'ichiro Ando

We investigate the prospects of detecting weakly interacting massive particle (WIMP) dark matter by measuring the contribution to the extragalactic gamma-ray radiation induced, in any dark matter halo and at all redshifts, by WIMP pair…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Piero Ullio , Lars Bergstrom , Joakim Edsjo , Cedric Lacey

The extra-dimensional origin of dark matter is a fascinating and nowadays often discussed possibility. Here, we present the gamma-ray signatures that are expected from the self-annihilation of Kaluza-Klein dark matter particles. For…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Lars Bergstrom , Torsten Bringmann , Martin Eriksson , Michael Gustafsson

We present updated results on the complementarity between high-energy colliders and dark matter direct detection experiments in the context of Universal Extra Dimensions (UED). In models with relatively small mass splittings between the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-08-28 Sebastian Arrenberg , Laura Baudis , Kyoungchul Kong , Konstantin T. Matchev , Jonghee Yoo

The existing and upcoming multiwavelength data from the Galactic Center suggest a comparative study in order to propose or rule out possible models which would explain the observations. In this paper we consider the X-ray synchrotron and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Lars Bergstrom , Malcolm Fairbairn , Lidia Pieri

The small-scale distribution of dark matter in Galactic halos is poorly known. Several studies suggest that it could be very clumpy, which turns out to be of paramount importance when investigating the annihilation signal from exotic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-08-04 Julien Lavalle , Jonathan Pochon , Pierre Salati , Richard Taillet

We propose a new signature for weakly interacting massive particle (WIMP) dark matter, a spectral feature in the diffuse extragalactic gamma-ray radiation. This feature, a sudden drop of the gamma-ray intensity at an energy corresponding to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-04-06 Lars Bergstrom , Joakim Edsjo , Piero Ullio

We reevaluate the thermal relic density of the Kaluza-Klein (KK) dark matter in universal extra dimension models. In particular, we consider the effect of the resonance caused by second KK particles on the density. We find that the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-11 Mitsuru Kakizaki , Shigeki Matsumoto , Yoshio Sato , Masato Senami

We point out that Kaluza-Klein (KK) dark matter physics is drastically affected by second KK particles. In this work various interesting phenomena caused by the second KK modes are discussed. In particular, we reevaluate the annihilation…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-11 Mitsuru Kakizaki , Shigeki Matsumoto , Yoshio Sato , Masato Senami

Models based on Universal Extra Dimensions predict Kaluza-Klein (KK) excitations of all Standard Model (SM) particles. We examine the pair production of KK excitations of top- and bottom-quarks at the Large Hadron Collider. Once produced,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-11-20 Debajyoti Choudhury , Anindya Datta , Kirtiman Ghosh

We consider Kaluza-Klein dark matter from deconstructed or latticized universal extra dimensions and study in this model the positron flux from Kaluza-Klein dark matter annihilation in the galactic halo.

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 Tomas Hallgren

Dark matter is the dominant form of matter in the universe, but its nature is unknown. It is plausibly an elementary particle, perhaps the lightest supersymmetric partner of known particle species. In this case, annihilation of dark matter…

Minimal universal extra dimensions (mUED) is often thought to predict that the lightest Kaluza-Klein particle (LKP) is the Kaluza-Klein gauge boson B^1, leading to conventional missing energy signals at colliders and WIMP dark matter. In…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 Jose A. R. Cembranos , Jonathan L. Feng , Louis E. Strigari

We study constraints on models with a flat "Universal'' Extra Dimension in which all Standard Model fields propagate in the bulk. A significantly improved constraint on the compactification scale is obtained from the extended set of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-11-18 Thomas Flacke , Dan Hooper , John March-Russell

We explore the properties of dark matter in theories with two universal extra dimensions, where the lightest Kaluza-Klein state is a spin-0 neutral particle, representing a six-dimensional photon polarized along the extra dimensions.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-11-18 Bogdan A. Dobrescu , Dan Hooper , Kyoungchul Kong , Rakhi Mahbubani

The anomaly detected by AMS-02 and PAMELA in the cosmic-ray positron flux when interpreted as arising from dark matter annihilation suggests that dark matter may interact differently with hadrons and leptons so as to remain compatible with…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-04-10 Yu Gao , Kyoungchul Kong , Danny Marfatia

We search for spectral features in Fermi-LAT gamma-rays coming from regions corresponding to eighteen brightest nearby galaxy clusters determined by the magnitude of their signal line-of-site integrals. We observe a double peak-like excess…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-05 Andi Hektor , Martti Raidal , Elmo Tempel

The detection of non-baryonic dark matter through its gamma-ray annihilation in the centre of our galaxy has been studied. The gamma fluxes according to different models have been simulated and compared to those expected to be observed with…

The energy-dependence of the anisotropy (the anisotropy energy spectrum) of the large-scale diffuse gamma-ray background can reveal the presence of multiple source populations. Annihilating dark matter in the substructure of the Milky Way…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-20 Brandon S. Hensley , Jennifer M. Siegal-Gaskins , Vasiliki Pavlidou

We study the gamma rays observed by the Fermi Gamma Ray Space Telescope from the direction of the Galactic Center and find that their angular distribution and energy spectrum are well described by a dark matter annihilation scenario. In…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-11 Lisa Goodenough , Dan Hooper