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We investigate the production of electrons and positrons in the Milky Way within the context of dark matter annihilation. Upper limits on the relevant cross-section are obtained by combining observational data at different wavelengths (from…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-05-06 Maneenate Wechakama , Yago Ascasibar

Dark Matter is a necessary ingredient for a complete theory of Nature, which has so far remained elusive in laboratory searches for new particles. Searches at current and future colliders are in principle a promising way to search for…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-07-26 Roberto Franceschini , Xiaoran Zhao

Recent gamma-ray and radio observations provide stringent constraints for annihilating dark matter. The current $2\sigma$ lower limits of dark matter mass can be constrained to $\sim 100$ GeV for thermal relic annihilation cross section. In…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-01-05 Man Ho Chan , Chak Man Lee

Dark matter is a key piece of the current cosmological scenario, with weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs) a leading dark matter candidate. WIMPs have not been detected in their conventional parameter space (100 GeV $\lesssim…

The possibility to use $\gamma$--ray data from the Galactic Center (GC) to constrain the cosmological evolution of the Universe in a phase prior to primordial nucleosyntesis, namely around the time of cold dark matter (CDM) decoupling, is…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-10-27 F. Donato , N. Fornengo , M. Schelke

The Weakly Interacting Massive Particles(WIMPs) have long been the favored CDM candidate in the standard $\Lambda$CDM model. However, owing to great improvement in the experimental sensitivity in the past decade, some parameter space of the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-11-15 Abineet Parichha , Shiv Sethi

The abnormally fast orbital decay observed in the black hole (BH) Low-Mass X-ray binaries (BH-LMXB) A0620-00 and XTE J1118+480 can be explained by the dynamical friction between Dark Matter (DM) and the companion star orbiting around the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-03-18 Arpan Kar , Hyomin Kim , Sang Pyo Kim , Stefano Scopel

In this letter, we consider a class of scenarios in which the dark matter is part of a heavy hidden sector that is thermally decoupled from the Standard Model in the early universe. The dark matter freezes-out by annihilating to a lighter,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-07-06 Asher Berlin , Dan Hooper , Gordan Krnjaic

We apply the recently developed analysis of 16 years of INTEGRAL/SPI data including a dark matter spatial template to derive bounds on dark matter candidates lighter than WIMPs (like sterile neutrinos or axion-like particles) decaying into…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-03-18 Francesca Calore , Ariane Dekker , Pasquale Dario Serpico , Thomas Siegert

The spectrum of Weakly-Interacting-Massive-Particle (WIMP) dark matter generically possesses bound states when the WIMP mass becomes sufficiently large relative to the mass of the electroweak gauge bosons. The presence of these bound states…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-09-20 Pouya Asadi , Matthew Baumgart , Patrick J. Fitzpatrick , Emmett Krupczak , Tracy R. Slatyer

We reconsider complex scalar singlet dark matter stabilised by a $\mathbb{Z}_{3}$ symmetry. We refine the stability bounds on the potential and use constraints from unitarity on scattering at finite energy to place a stronger lower limit on…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-04-10 Andi Hektor , Andrzej Hryczuk , Kristjan Kannike

We consider dark matter annihilation into a general set of final states of Standard Model particles, including two-body and four-body final states that result from the decay of intermediate states. For dark matter masses ~10-10^5 GeV, we…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-01-17 Steven J. Clark , Bhaskar Dutta , Louis E. Strigari

We use the latest cosmic microwave background (CMB) observations to provide updated constraints on the dark matter lifetime as well as on p-wave suppressed annihilation cross sections in the 1 MeV to 1 TeV mass range. In contrast to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-02-17 Roberta Diamanti , Laura Lopez-Honorez , Olga Mena , Sergio Palomares-Ruiz , Aaron C. Vincent

We extend the Standard Model by adding two gauge-singlet $\mathbb{Z}_{2}$% -symmetric scalar fields that interact with visible matter only through the Higgs particle. One is a stable dark matter WIMP, and the other one undergoes a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-06-07 Abdessamad Abada , Salah Nasri , Djamal Ghaffor

We calculate the limits on the fraction of viable dark matter minihalos in the early universe to host Population III.1 stars, surviving today as dark matter spikes in our Milky Way halo. Motivated by potential hints of light dark matter…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-05-30 Pearl Sandick , Juerg Diemand , Katherine Freese , Douglas Spolyar

In a non-standard cosmological scenario, heavy, long-lived particles, which we call moduli, dominate the energy density prior to Big Bang Nucleosynthesis. Weakly Interacting Massive Particles (WIMPs) may be produced non-thermally from…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-12-13 Amitayus Banik , Manuel Drees

Cosmology may give rise to appreciable populations of both particle dark matter and primordial black holes (PBH) with the combined mass density providing the observationally inferred value $\Omega_{\rm DM}\approx0.26$. However, previous…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-11-06 Prolay Chanda , Jakub Scholtz , James Unwin

The minimal seesaw extension of the Standard SU(3) x SU(2) x U(1) Model requires two electroweak singlet fermions in order to accommodate the neutrino oscillation parameters at tree level. Here we consider a next to minimal extension where…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-11-05 M. Hirsch , R. A. Lineros , S. Morisi , J. Palacio , N. Rojas , J. W. F. Valle

What is the upper limit of the mass of the neutralino dark matter whose thermal relic is consistent with the observation? If the neutralino dark matter and colored sparticles are extremely degenerated in mass, with a mass difference less…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-01-07 Hajime Fukuda , Feng Luo , Satoshi Shirai

Recently it was shown that the excess of diffuse Galactic gamma rays above 1 GeV could be interpreted as a Dark Matter annihilation signal. From the spectral shape of the excess it is possible to determine a range for the allowed WIMP mass…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-10-25 Christian Sander