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The precise measurements of energy spectra of cosmic ray positrons and/or electrons by recent experiments show clear excesses above 10 GeV. Moreover, a potential sharp spectral feature was suggested by the Dark Matter Particle Explorer…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-04-29 Lei Feng , Zhaofeng Kang , Qiang Yuan , Peng-Fei Yin , Yi-Zhong Fan

The AMS-02 collaboration has recently presented measurements of excellent quality of the cosmic electron and positron fluxes as well as the positron fraction. We use the measurements of the positron flux to derive, for the first time,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-04-02 Alejandro Ibarra , Anna S. Lamperstorfer , Joseph Silk

The annihilation of dark matter particles in the galactic halo of the Milky Way may lead to cosmic ray signatures that can be probed by the AMS-02 experiment, which has measured the composition and fluxes of charged cosmic rays with…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-05-10 Leila Ali Cavasonza , Henning Gast , Michael Krämer , Mathieu Pellen , Stefan Schael

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 Large Area Telescope onboard the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope has collected the largest ever sample of high-energy cosmic-ray electron and positron events. Possible features in their energy spectrum could be a signature of the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-07-13 M. N. Mazziotta , F. Costanza , A. Cuoco , F. Gargano , F. Loparco , S. Zimmer

The Fermi experiment has measured the cosmic ray electron+positron spectrum and positron fraction [$\Phi_{e^+}/(\Phi_{e^+ + e^-})]$, and PAMELA has measured the positron fraction with better precision. While the majority of cosmic ray…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-04-04 Arjun Sharma

Using the latest AMS-02 cosmic ray antiproton flux data, we search for potential dark matter annihilation signal. The background parameters about the propagation, source injection, and solar modulation are not assumed {\it a priori}, but…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-05-17 Ming-Yang Cui , Qiang Yuan , Yue-Lin Sming Tsai , Yi-Zhong Fan

We use recently released data on the positron-to-electron ratio in cosmic rays from the AMS-02 experiment to constrain dark matter annihilation in the Milky Way. Due to the yet unexplained positron excess, limits are generally weaker than…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-10-31 Joachim Kopp

We study the cosmic ray antiprotons with updated constraints on the propagation, proton injection, and solar modulation parameters based on the newest AMS-02 data near the Earth and Voyager data in the local interstellar space, and on the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-06-15 Ming-Yang Cui , Xu Pan , Qiang Yuan , Yi-Zhong Fan , Hong-Shi Zong

Cosmic-ray positrons have long been considered a powerful probe of dark matter annihilation. In particular, myriad studies of the unexpected rise in the positron fraction have debated its dark matter or pulsar origins. In this paper, we…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-01-07 Isabelle John , Tim Linden

In light of the first measurement of the positron fraction by the AMS-02 experiment, we perform a detailed global analysis on the interpretation of the latest data of PAMELA, Fermi-LAT, and AMS-02 in terms of dark matter (DM) annihilation…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-15 Hong-Bo Jin , Yue-Liang Wu , Yu-Feng Zhou

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

MeV dark matter (DM) particles annihilating or decaying to electron-positron pairs cannot, in principle, be observed via local cosmic-ray (CR) measurements because of the shielding solar magnetic field. In this letter, we take advantage of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-07-19 Mathieu Boudaud , Julien Lavalle , Pierre Salati

Antimatter cosmic-rays are used to probe new phenomena in physics, including dark matter annihilation. We use the cosmic-ray positron fraction spectrum by the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer, to search for such an annihilation signal in the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-01-18 Iason Krommydas , Ilias Cholis

In this work we perform a comprehensive statistical analysis of the AMS-02 electron, positron fluxes and the antiproton-to-proton ratio in the context of a simplified dark matter model. We include known, standard astrophysical sources and a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-05-25 Csaba Balázs , Tong Li

An upper limit on the total annihilation cross section of dark matter (DM) has recently been derived from the observed atmospheric neutrino background. We show that comparable bounds are obtained for DM masses around the TeV scale by…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 M. Kachelriess , P. D. Serpico

The AMS-02 experiment is measuring the high energy charged cosmic rays with unprecedented accuracy. We explore the possibility of determining the cosmic-ray propagation models using the AMS-02 data $alone$. A global Bayesian analysis of the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-09-30 Hong-Bo Jin , Yue-Liang Wu , Yu-Feng Zhou

The particle origin of dark matter (DM) is still one of the main puzzles in modern physics. One of the most promising search strategy to detect DM at laboratories is through the indirect search of cosmic particles that are produced from DM…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-05-04 Haoxiang Zhan

Cosmic-ray and gamma-ray observations have yielded several notable excesses that often lend themselves to explanation by various dark matter annihilation/decay models. In particular, the AMS-02 anti-proton and positron excesses have…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-09-04 Geoff Beck

We present here a quantitative analysis of the recent AMS-02 data with the purpose of investigating the interplay between astrophysical sources and Dark Matter in their interpretation. First, we show that AMS-02 leptonic measurements are in…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-08-03 Mattia Di Mauro , Andrea Vittino
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