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Galactic diffuse TeV gamma-ray emission is produced by the interaction of high-energy cosmic-ray particles with matter and radiation in our Galaxy. The measurement of Galactic diffuse TeV gamma-ray emission would provide strong constraints…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-14 Hao Zhou , Chang Dong Rho , Giacomo Vianello

This report presents an overview of the unconventional use of charge-coupled devices (CCDs) to search for Dark Matter (DM). The DArk Matter In CCDs (DAMIC Experiment) employs the bulk silicon of thick, fully-depleted CCDs as a target for…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2020-01-14 N. Castello-Mor , DAMIC-M Collaboration

Clusters of galaxies have not yet been detected at gamma-ray frequencies; however, the recently launched Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope, formerly known as GLAST, could provide the first detections in the near future. Clusters are expected…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-07-14 Tesla E. Jeltema , John Kehayias , Stefano Profumo

Very Large Area gamma-ray Space Telescope (VLAST) is the next-generation flagship space observatory for high-energy gamma-ray detection proposed by China. The observation energy range covers from MeV to TeV and beyond, with acceptance of 10…

Simulations of dark matter show a discrepancy between the expected number of Galactic dark matter sub-halos and how many have been optically observed. Some of these unseen satellites may exist as dark dwarf galaxies: sub-halos like dwarf…

The low-energy $\gamma$-ray (0.1-30 MeV) sky has been relatively unexplored since the decommissioning of the COMPTEL instrument on the Compton Gamma-Ray Observatory (CGRO) satellite in 2000. However, the study of this part of the energy…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-03-26 Kees de Kuijper , Rishank Diwan , Partha Sarathi Pal , Andreas Ritter , Pablo M. Saz Parkinson , Andy C. T. Kong , Quentin A. Parker

DAMSA (DArk Messenger Searches at an Accelerator) experiment is a table-top scale, extremely-short-baseline experiment designed to probe dark-sector particles (DSPs) that serve as portals between the visible sector and the hidden…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2025-09-24 DAMSA Proto-Collaboration , Jaehoon Yu , Doojin Kim , Un-Ki Yang

The recent analyses of the Fermi Large Area Telescope data show an extended GeV $\gamma$-ray excess on top of the expected diffuse background in the Galactic center region, which can be explained with annihilating dark matter or a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-04-23 Qiang Yuan , Kunihito Ioka

A small, natural abundance, germanium detector (COSME) has been operating recently at the Canfranc Underground Laboratory (Spanish Pyrenees) in improved conditions of shielding and overburden with respect to a previous operation of the same…

The General Antiparticle Spectrometer (GAPS) will carry out a sensitive dark matter search by measuring low-energy ($\mathrm{E} < 0.25 \mathrm{GeV/nucleon}$) cosmic ray antinuclei. The primary targets are low-energy antideuterons produced…

In the cosmological paradigm, cold dark matter (DM) dominates the mass content of the Universe and is present at every scale. Candidates for DM include many extensions of the standard model, with a weakly interacting massive particle (WIMP)…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-14 B. Zitzer

The radio technique for the detection of cosmic particles has seen a major revival in recent years. New and planned experiments in the lab and the field, such as GLUE, Anita, LUNASKA, Codalema, LOPES as well as sophisticated Monte Carlo…

Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-15 Heino Falcke

Weakly interacting massive particles, as a major candidate of dark matter (DM), may directly annihilate or decay into high-energy photons, producing monochromatic spectral lines in the gamma-ray band. These spectral lines, if detected, are…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-01-15 Ji-Gui Cheng , Yun-Feng Liang , En-Wei Liang

LHAASO is expected to be the most sensitive project to face the open problems in Galactic cosmic ray physics through a combined study of photon- and charged particle-induced extensive air showers in the energy range 10$^{11}$ - 10$^{17}$…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-13 G. Di Sciascio

Dark Matter (DM) comprising particles in the mass range of a few MeV to GeV is waiting to be explored, given the many theoretical models accommodating cosmological abundance. We hereby propose an experiment with the LHC proton beam of 7 TeV…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2016-09-04 Ashok Kumar , Archana Sharma

The Fermi Gamma-Ray Space Telescope, successfully launched on June 11th, 2008, is the next generation satellite experiment for high-energy gamma-ray astronomy. The main instrument, the Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT), with a wide field of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-13 Christine Meurer

The CoMET is an R$\&$D project aiming to design a very-high-energy (VHE) gamma-ray observatory sensitive to energies above $\sim$ 200 GeV. The science goals include continuous observation of soft-spectrum VHE gamma-ray sources such as…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-07-28 M. Senniappan , Y. Becherini , M. Punch , S. Thoudam , T. Bylund , G. Kukec Mezek , J. -P. Ernenwein

The Zir\`e experiment onboard NUSES space mission has several science goals, including the measurements of charged particles and light nuclei from few up to hundreds of MeVs, for the study of low-energy cosmic rays, space weather phenomena,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-23 Ritabrata Sarkar

The High Altitude Water Cherenkov (HAWC) Gamma-Ray Observatory was completed this year at a 4100-meter site on the flank of the Sierra Negra volcano in Mexico. HAWC is a water Cherenkov ground array with the capability to distinguish 100…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-13 John Pretz

For the understanding of the origin and propagation of ultra-high energy cosmic rays (UHECR) we developed a new approach to simulating UHECRs from an arbitrary number of sources based on Monte Carlo technique. The method consists of a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2012-02-15 Klaus Dolag , Martin Erdmann , Gero Müller , David Walz , Tobias Winchen