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Dark matter search in space has been carried out for many years. Measurements of cosmic ray photons, charged antiparticles and neutrinos are useful tools for dark matter indirect search. The antiparticle energy spectra of cosmic rays have…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-05-16 Jie Feng , Hong-Hao Zhang

The two messenger results of the GeV gamma-ray excess at the Galactic center and a probable antiproton excess in the recent AMS-02 observation suggest that these two anomalies may be owing to the same origin --- the dark matter (DM)…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-09-20 Lian-Bao Jia

The nature of dark matter is increasingly constrained by cosmological data. In this paper, we examine the implications of the Cosmic Microwave Background anisotropy limits on the density of cold dark matter under different theoretical…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 A. Melchiorri , J. Silk

The first published Fermi large area telescope (Fermi-LAT) measurement of the isotropic diffuse gamma-ray emission is in good agreement with a single power law, and is not showing any signature of a dominant contribution from dark matter…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 LAT collaboration , A. A. Abdo , M. Ackermann , M. Ajello , L. Baldini , J. Ballet , G. Barbiellini , D. Bastieri , K. Bechtol , R. Bellazzini , B. Berenji , R. D. Blandford , E. D. Bloom , E. Bonamente , A. W. Borgland , A. Bouvier , J. Bregeon , A. Brez , M. Brigida , P. Bruel , T. H. Burnett , S. Buson , G. A. Caliandro , R. A. Cameron , P. A. Caraveo , S. Carrigan , J. M. Casandjian , C. Cecchi , O. C. Elik , A. Chekhtman , C. C. Cheung , J. Chiang , S. Ciprini , R. Claus , J. Cohen-Tanugi , J. Conrad , S. Cutini , C. D. Dermer , A. de Angelis , F. de Palma , S. W. Digel , E. do Couto e Silva , P. S. Drell , R. Dubois , D. Dumora , Y. Edmonds , C. Farnier , C. Favuzzi , S. J. Fegan , W. B. Focke , P. Fortin , M. Frailis , Y. Fukazawa , P. Fusco , F. Gargano , D. Gasparrini , N. Gehrels , S. Germani , N. Giglietto , F. Giordano , T. Glanzman , G. Godfrey , J. E. Grove , L. Guillemot , S. Guiriec , M. Gustafsson , D. Hadasch , A. K. Harding , D. Horan , R. E. Hughes , A. S. Johnson , W. N. Johnson , T. Kamae , H. Katagiri , J. Kataoka , N. Kawai , M. Kerr , J. Knodlseder , M. Kuss , J. Lande , L. Latronico , M. Llena Garde , F. Longo , F. Loparco , B. Lott , M. N. Lovellette , P. Lubrano , A. Makeev , M. N. Mazziotta , J. E. McEnery , C. Meurer , P. F. Michelson , W. Mitthumsiri , T. Mizuno , C. Monte , M. E. Monzani , A. Morselli , I. V. Moskalenko , S. Murgia , P. L. Nolan , J. P. Norris , E. Nuss , T. Ohsugi , N. Omodei , E. Orlando , J. F. Ormes , D. Paneque , J. H. Panetta , D. Parent , V. Pelassa , M. Pepe , M. Pesce-Rollins , F. Piron , S. Raino , R. Rando , A. Reimer , O. Reimer , T. Reposeur , A. Y. Rodriguez , M. Roth , H. F. W. Sadrozinski , A. Sander , P. M. Saz Parkinson , J. D. Scargle , A. Sellerholm , C. Sgro , E. J. Siskind , P. D. Smith , G. Spandre , P. Spinelli , J. L. Starck , M. S. Strickman , D. J. Suson , H. Takahashi , T. Tanaka , J. B. Thayer , J. G. Thayer , D. F. Torres , Y. Uchiyama , T. L. Usher , V. Vasileiou , N. Vilchez , V. Vitale , A. P. Waite , P. Wang , B. L. Winer , K. S. Wood , T. Ylinen , G. Zaharijas , M. Ziegle

We set conservative constraints on decaying dark matter particles with masses spanning a very wide range ($10^4-10^{16}$ GeV). For this we use multimessenger observations of cosmic-ray (CR) protons/antiprotons, electrons/positrons,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-02-03 Koji Ishiwata , Oscar Macias , Shin'ichiro Ando , Makoto Arimoto

We report calculations of cosmic-ray proton, nuclei, antiproton, electron and positron energy spectra within a "two-halo model" of diffusive transport. The two halos represent a simple, physically consistent generalization of the standard…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-10-20 Nicola Tomassetti

Galaxy clusters are dominated by dark matter, and may have a larger proportion of surviving substructure than, e.g, field galaxies. Due to the presence of galaxy clusters in relative proximity and their high dark matter content, they are…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-07-01 Douglas Quincy Adams , Lars Bergstrom , Douglas Spolyar

If the present dark matter in the Universe annihilates into Standard Model particles, it must contribute to the gamma ray fluxes detected on the Earth. Here we briefly review the present constraints for the detection of gamma ray photons…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 J. A. R. Cembranos , A. de la Cruz-Dombriz , V. Gammaldi , A. L. Maroto

Low energy antideuteron detection presents a unique channel for indirect detection, targeting dark matter that annihilates into hadrons in a relatively background-free way. Since the idea was first proposed, many WIMP-type models have…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-05-26 Lisa Randall , Weishuang Linda Xu

Dark matter annihilations in the Galactic halo inject relativistic electrons and positrons which in turn generate a synchrotron radiation when interacting with the galactic magnetic field. We calculate the synchrotron flux for various dark…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2012-01-11 N. Fornengo , R. A. Lineros , M. Regis , M. Taoso

The Galactic center $\gamma$-ray excess, detected by the Fermi-LAT, is a very attractive tentative signal from dark matter annihilation. Searching for associated synchrotron emissions can test the dark matter interpretation for this excess.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-05-18 Wen-Qing Guo , Yichao Li , Xiaoyuan Huang , Yin-Zhe Ma , Geoff Beck , Yogesh Chandola , Feng Huang

Galactic charged cosmic rays (notably electrons, positrons, antiprotons and light antinuclei) are powerful probes of dark matter annihilation or decay, in particular for candidates heavier than a few MeV or tiny evaporating primordial black…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-10-13 Yoann Génolini , Mathieu Boudaud , Marco Cirelli , Laurent Derome , Julien Lavalle , David Maurin , Pierre Salati , Nathanael Weinrich

AMS-02 provided the unprecedented statistics in the measurement of the positron fraction from cosmic rays. That may offer a unique opportunity to distinguish the positron spectrum coming from various dark matter (DM) annihilation channels,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-02-17 Yu-Heng Chen , Kingman Cheung , Po-Yan Tseng

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…

We consider the possibility that the cosmological dark matter consists of particles very close in mass to new colored particles below the TeV scale. While such a scenario is inherently difficult to directly confirm at colliders, we find…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2012-03-05 Masaki Asano , Torsten Bringmann , Christoph Weniger

Hints of direct dark matter detection coming from the DAMA, CoGeNT experiments point toward light dark matter with isospin-violating and possibly inelastic couplings. However an array of astrophysical constraints are rapidly closing the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-05-30 James M. Cline , Andrew R. Frey

We set an upper limit on the mass of a supersymmetric neutralino dark matter particle using the MicrOMEGAS and DarkSUSY software packages and the most recent constraints on relic density from combined WMAP and SDSS data. We explore several…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 Rudy C. Gilmore

The observed anomalous excess of high-energy cosmic ray (CR) positrons is widely discussed as possible indirect evidence for dark matter (DM). However, any source of cosmic positrons is inevitably the source of gamma radiation. The least…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-04-14 Konstantin M. Belotsky , Airat Kh. Kamaletdinov , Ekaterina S. Shlepkina , Maxim L. Solovyov

We study the origin of the positron excess observed in the local cosmic-ray spectrum at high energies, and relate it to the cosmic rays and gamma-ray emission across the entire Galaxy. In particular, we explore the hypothesis of a single,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-03-07 Manuel Rocamora , Yago Ascasibar , Miguel A. Sánchez-Conde , Maneenate Wechakama , Pedro de la Torre Luque

Detection of gamma rays from dark matter annihilation in the galactic center is one of the feasible techniques to search for dark matter. We evaluate the gamma ray flux in the case that the dark matter has an electroweak SU(2)_L charge.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-10 Junji Hisano , Shigeki. Matsumoto , Mihoko M. Nojiri , Osamu Saito