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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

The ISS-based CALET (CALorimetric Electron Telescope) detector can play an important role in indirect search for Dark Matter (DM), measuring the electron+positron flux in the TeV region for the first time directly. With its fine energy…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-08-11 S. Bhattacharyya , H. Motz , S. Torii , Y. Asaoka

We reconsider the proposal of excited dark matter (DM) as an explanation for excess 511 keV gamma rays from positrons in the galactic center. We quantitatively compute the cross section for DM annihilation to nearby excited states, mediated…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-11-20 Fang Chen , James M. Cline , Anthony Fradette , Andrew R. Frey , Charles Rabideau

The Fermi Collaboration has recently updated their analysis of gamma rays from the center of the Galaxy. They reconfirm the presence of an unexplained emission feature which is most prominent in the region of $1-10$ GeV, known as the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-01-11 Abraham Achterberg , Melissa van Beekveld , Sascha Caron , Germán A. Gómez-Vargas , Luc Hendriks , Roberto Ruiz de Austri

We present a novel unifying interpretation of excess event rates observed in several dark matter direct-detection experiments that utilize single-electron threshold semiconductor detectors. Despite their different locations, exposures,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-07-29 Noah Kurinsky , Daniel Baxter , Yonatan Kahn , Gordan Krnjaic

We propose a possible explanation for the recent claim of an excess at 3.5 keV in the X-ray spectrum within a minimal extension of the standard model that explains dark matter and baryon abundance of the universe. The dark matter mass in…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-07-09 Rouzbeh Allahverdi , Bhaskar Dutta , Yu Gao

We propose a one-loop induced neutrino mass model with hidden $U(1)$ gauge symmetry, in which we successfully involve a bosonic dark matter (DM) candidate propagating inside a loop diagram in neutrino mass generation to explain the $e^+e^-$…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-06-06 Takaaki Nomura , Hiroshi Okada , Peiwen Wu

Dark matter (DM) annihilations have been widely studied as a possible explanation of excess gamma rays from the galactic center seen by Fermi/LAT. However most such models are in conflict with constraints from dwarf spheroidals. Motivated…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-07-22 Jeremie Choquette , James M. Cline , Jonathan M. Cornell

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

The gamma-ray excess observed from the Galactic Center can be interpreted as dark matter particles annihilating into Standard Model fermions with a cross section near that expected for a thermal relic. Although many particle physics models…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-08-19 Asher Berlin , Pierre Gratia , Dan Hooper , Samuel D. McDermott

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

In this paper we develop a Markov Chain Monte Carlo code to study the dark matter properties in interpreting the recent observations of cosmic ray electron/positron excesses. We assume that the dark matter particles couple dominantly to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-01-20 Jie Liu , Qiang Yuan , Xiaojun Bi , Hong Li , Xinmin Zhang

We construct a simple U(1) hidden sector model of metastable dark matter that could explain excess 511 keV gamma rays from the galactic center as observed by INTEGRAL, through inelastic scattering of dark matter followed by its decay.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-04 James M. Cline , Andrew R. Frey

In some scenarios, the dark matter relic abundance is set by the semi-annihilation of two dark matter particles into one dark matter particle and one Standard Model particle. These semi-annihilations might still be occurring today in the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-04-08 Boris Betancourt Kamenetskaia , Motoko Fujiwara , Alejandro Ibarra , Takashi Toma

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

The XENON1T dark matter experiment recently reported 0.65 ton-year exposure measurement on electron recoils , which shows an excess in $2\sim 3$ KeV recoils above the detector background. In this paper we present a Pseudo-Dirac dark matter…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-06-30 Wei Chao , Yu Gao , Ming jie Jin

We propose a novel mechanism to explain the positron excesses, which are observed by satellite-based telescopes including PAMELA and AMS-02, in dark matter (DM) scenarios. The novelty behind the proposal is that it makes direct use of DM…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-05-09 Doojin Kim , Jong-Chul Park , Seodong Shin

Electrons and positrons produced in dark matter annihilation can generate secondary emission through synchrotron and IC processes, and such secondary emission provides a possible means to detect DM particles with masses beyond the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-02-02 Xiao-Song Hu , Ben-Yang Zhu , Tian-Ci Liu , Yun-Feng Liang

Motivated by the recent XENON1T results, we explore various new physics models that can be discovered through searches for electron recoils in O(keV)-threshold direct-detection experiments. First, we consider the absorption of light bosons,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-05-12 Itay M. Bloch , Andrea Caputo , Rouven Essig , Diego Redigolo , Mukul Sholapurkar , Tomer Volansky

We propose an economical model to explain the apparent 130 GeV gamma ray peak, found in the Fermi/LAT data, in terms of dark matter annihilation through a dipole moment interaction. The annihilating dark matter particles represent a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-11 James M. Cline , Andrew R. Frey , Guy D. Moore