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The presence of dark matter substructure will boost the signatures of dark matter annihilation. We review recent progress on estimates of this subhalo boost factor---a ratio of the luminosity from annihilation in the subhalos to that…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-04-29 Shin'ichiro Ando , Tomoaki Ishiyama , Nagisa Hiroshima

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

In the past few years, many mesoscale systems have been proposed as possible detectors of sub-GeV dark matter particles. In this work, we point out the feasibility of probing dark matter-nucleon scattering cross section using…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-11-15 Anirban Das , Noah Kurinsky , Rebecca K. Leane

Current and most upcoming neutrino detectors can only reach a dark matter annihilation cross section to neutrinos larger than the standard freeze-out value, but they open intriguing detection avenues for non-standard dark matter paradigms.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-08-06 Shinya Kanemura , Shao-Ping Li , Dibyendu Nanda

Asymmetric Dark Matter (ADM) models relate the dark matter density to the baryon asymmetry, so that a natural mass scale for ADM is around a few GeV. In existing models of ADM, this mass scale is unexplained; here we generate this GeV scale…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-11-21 Timothy Cohen , Daniel J. Phalen , Aaron Pierce , Kathryn M. Zurek

We revisit constraints on annihilating dark matter based on the global 21cm signature observed by EDGES. For this purpose, we used the numerical data of the latest N-body simulation performed by state-of-the-art standard in order to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-11-10 Nagisa Hiroshima , Kazunori Kohri , Toyokazu Sekiguchi , Ryuichi Takahashi

We analyze the present status of sub-GeV thermal dark matter annihilating through Standard Model mixing and identify a small set of future experiments that can decisively test these scenarios.

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-12-23 Eder Izaguirre , Gordan Krnjaic , Philip Schuster , Natalia Toro

We investigate the dark matter annihilation in the brane-world and quintessence scenarios, in which the modified cosmological expansion rate can enhance the thermal relic density of dark matter. According to the observed dark matter…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-07-09 Wan-Lei Guo , Xin Zhang

Direct detection of light dark matter can be significantly enhanced by up-scattering of dark matter with energetic particles in the cosmic ambient. This boosted dark matter flux can reach kinetic energies up to tens of MeV, while the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-03-18 Dilip Kumar Ghosh , Tushar Gupta , Matti Heikinheimo , Katri Huitu , Sk Jeesun

We study a nonstandard dark-matter thermal history in which strong self-interactions give rise to collective many-body effects at high number density, as in strongly interacting quantum media. At early times, dark matter occupies a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-03-11 Hindi Zouhair

The trouble in detecting low mass dark matter due to its low kinetic energy can be ameliorated in the boosted dark matter framework, where a sub-population of galactic dark matter attains very high energy after being up-scattered by…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-04-24 Sk Jeesun

We study evolution of dark matter substructures, especially how they lose the mass and change density profile after they fall in gravitational potential of larger host halos. We develop an analytical prescription that models the subhalo…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-06-12 Nagisa Hiroshima , Shin'ichiro Ando , Tomoaki Ishiyama

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

We analyze the indirect astrophysical signatures of secluded models of WIMP dark matter, characterized by a weak-scale rate for annihilation into light MeV-scale mediators which are metastable to decay into Standard Model states. Such…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-04-28 Maxim Pospelov , Adam Ritz

The AMS experiment onboard the International Space Station has recently provided cosmic ray electron and positron data with unprecedented precision in the range from 0.5 to 350 GeV. The observed rise in the positron fraction at energies…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-10-29 Lars Bergstrom , Torsten Bringmann , Ilias Cholis , Dan Hooper , Christoph Weniger

We present a model of dark matter in a warped extra dimension in which the dark sector mass scales are naturally generated without supersymmetry. The dark force, responsible for dark matter annihilating predominantly into leptons, is…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-05-27 Tony Gherghetta , Benedict von Harling

Annihilating dark matter (DM) models based on a scalar hidden sector with Higgs portal-like couplings to the Standard Model are considered as a possible explanation for recently observed cosmic ray excesses. Two versions of the model are…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-05-13 Kazunori Kohri , John McDonald , Narendra Sahu

Dark matter can be boosted by various mechanisms, which may produce characteristic signals that are different from those of canonical dark matter. We show that the semi-annihilation $\chi\chi\to\bar{\chi}\nu$ produces signals that are…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-02-11 Takashi Toma

A Dark Sink uses dark-sector interactions to siphon energy from dark matter to lighter dark degrees of freedom, i.e. dark radiation. Here, we extend dark matter models containing a Dark Sink to sub-MeV masses. We consider a Dark Sink model…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-03-04 Prudhvi N. Bhattiprolu , Robert McGehee , Evan Petrosky , Aaron Pierce

We extend the analysis of asymmetric Dark Matter relic density with Sommerfeld enhancement to the case where the mediator is massive. In asymmetric Dark Matter models, the asymmetric Dark Matter is assumed to couple to light scalar or…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-02-24 Aerman Sulitan , Hoernisa Iminniyaz , Mu Baoxia