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Indirect detection of particle dark matter relies upon pair annihilation of Weakly Interaction Massive Particles (WIMPs), which is complementary to the well known techniques of direct detection (WIMP-nucleus scattering) and collider…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Lawrence Wai , GLAST LAT Collaboration

Both the robust INTEGRAL 511 keV gamma-ray line and the recent tentative hint of the 135 GeV gamma-ray line from Fermi-LAT have similar signal morphologies, and may be produced from the same dark matter annihilation. Motivated by this…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-12 Yang Bai , Meng Su , Yue Zhao

Gammapy is a Python package for high-level gamma-ray data analysis built on Numpy, Scipy and Astropy. It enables us to analyze gamma-ray data and to create sky images, spectra and lightcurves, from event lists and instrument response…

Observations by the WMAP experiment have identified an excess of microwave emission from the center of the Milky Way. It has previously been shown that this "WMAP Haze" could be synchrotron emission from relativistic electrons and positrons…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Dan Hooper , Gabrijela Zaharijas , Douglas P. Finkbeiner , Gregory Dobler

Motivated by the gamma-ray excess observed from the region surrounding the Galactic Center, we explore particle dark matter models that could potentially account for the spectrum and normalization of this signal. Taking a model-independent…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-04 Asher Berlin , Dan Hooper , Samuel D. McDermott

We discuss the potential for the detection of dark matter and the characterization of its particle nature via the observation of dark matter subhalos. Specifically, we discuss the search for dark matter Galactic subhalos in the gamma-ray…

Recently, an analysis of data from the Fermi Gamma Ray Space Telescope has revealed a flux of gamma rays concentrated around the inner ~0.5 degrees of the Milky Way, with a spectrum that is sharply peaked at 2-4 GeV. If interpreted as the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2011-05-05 Dan Hooper , Tim Linden

The observation of a gamma-ray line in the cosmic-ray fluxes would be a smoking-gun signature for dark matter annihilation or decay in the Universe. We present an improved search for such signatures in the data of the Fermi Large Area…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2012-08-09 Christoph Weniger

We implemented a novel technique to perform the collective spectral analysis of sets of multiple gamma-ray point sources using the data collected by the Large Area Telescope onboard the Fermi satellite. The energy spectra of the sources are…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2012-08-02 M. N. Mazziotta , F. Loparco , F. de Palma , N. Giglietto

It has been long discussed that cosmic rays may contain signals of dark matter. In the last couple of years an anomaly of cosmic-ray positrons has drawn a lot of attentions, and recently an excess in cosmic-ray anti-proton has been reported…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-06-29 Shin'ichiro Ando , Koji Ishiwata

Due to their higher concentrations and small internal velocities, Milky Way subhalos can be at least as important as the smooth halo in accounting for the GeV positron excess via dark matter annihilation. After showing how this can be…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2010-08-13 Matthew D. Kistler , Jennifer M. Siegal-Gaskins

The discovery of diffuse sub-PeV gamma-rays by the Tibet AS$_\gamma$ Collaboration promises to revolutionize our understanding of the high-energy astrophysical universe. It has been shown that these data broadly agree with prior theoretical…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-02-22 Tarak Nath Maity , Akash Kumar Saha , Abhishek Dubey , Ranjan Laha

Satellite galaxies of the Milky Way are among the most promising targets for dark matter searches in gamma rays. We present a search for dark matter consisting of weakly interacting massive particles, applying a joint likelihood analysis to…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2012-08-27 LAT Collaboration , M. Ackermann , M. Ajello , A. Albert , W. B. Atwood , L. Baldini , J. Ballet , G. Barbiellini , D. Bastieri , K. Bechtol , R. Bellazzini , B. Berenji , R. D. Blandford , E. D. Bloom , E. Bonamente , A. W. Borgland , J. Bregeon , M. Brigida , P. Bruel , R. Buehler , T. H. Burnett , S. Buson , G. A. Caliandro , R. A. Cameron , B. Canadas , P. A. Caraveo , J. M. Casandjian , C. Cecchi , E. Charles , A. Chekhtman , J. Chiang , S. Ciprini , R. Claus , J. Cohen-Tanugi , J. Conrad , S. Cutini , A. de Angelis , F. de Palma , C. D. Dermer , S. W. Digel , E. do Couto e Silva , P. S. Drell , A. Drlica-Wagner , L. Falletti , C. Favuzzi , S. J. Fegan , E. C. Ferrara , Y. Fukazawa , S. Funk , P. Fusco , F. Gargano , D. Gasparrini , N. Gehrels , S. Germani , N. Giglietto , F. Giordano , M. Giroletti , T. Glanzman , G. Godfrey , I. A. Grenier , S. Guiriec , M. Gustafsson , D. Hadasch , M. Hayashida , E. Hays , R. E. Hughes , T. E. Jeltema , G. Johannesson , R. P. Johnson , A. S. Johnson , T. Kamae , H. Katagiri , J. Kataoka , J. Knödlseder , M. Kuss , J. Lande , L. Latronico , A. M. Lionetto , M. Llena Garde , F. Longo , F. Loparco , B. Lott , M. N. Lovellette , P. Lubrano , G. M. Madejski , M. N. Mazziotta , J. E. McEnery , J. Mehault , P. F. Michelson , W. Mitthumsiri , T. Mizuno , C. Monte , M. E. Monzani , A. Morselli , I. V. Moskalenko , S. Murgia , M. Naumann-Godo , J. P. Norris , E. Nuss , T. Ohsugi , A. Okumura , N. Omodei , E. Orlando , J. F. Ormes , M. Ozaki , D. Paneque , D. Parent , M. Pesce-Rollins , M. Pierbattista , F. Piron , G. Pivato , T. A. Porter , S. Profumo , S. Raino , M. Razzano , A. Reimer , O. Reimer , S. Ritz , M. Roth , H. F. -W. Sadrozinski , C. Sbarra , J. D. Scargle , T. L. Schalk , C. Sgro , E. J. Siskind , G. Spandre , P. Spinelli , L. Strigari , D. J. Suson , H. Tajima , H. Takahashi , T. Tanaka , J. G. Thayer , J. B. Thayer , D. J. Thompson , L. Tibaldo , M. Tinivella , D. F. Torres , E. Troja , Y. Uchiyama , J. Vandenbroucke , V. Vasileiou , G. Vianello , V. Vitale , A. P. Waite , P. Wang , B. L. Winer , K. S. Wood , M. Wood , Z. Yang , S. Zimmer , M. Kaplinghat , G. D. Martinez

Extensive air shower detectors of gamma rays in the sub-PeV energy region provide a new and relatively unexplored window for dark matter searches. Here we derive some implications of the recently published Tibet AS$_\gamma$ data for…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-07-14 Arman Esmaili , Pasquale D. Serpico

We describe an approach to detect dark matter and other invisible particles with mass below a GeV, exploiting missing energy-momentum measurements and other kinematic features of fixed-target production. In the case of an invisibly decaying…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-05-27 Eder Izaguirre , Gordan Krnjaic , Philip Schuster , Natalia Toro

The detection of non-baryonic dark matter through its gamma-ray annihilation in the centre of our galaxy has been studied. The gamma fluxes according to different models have been simulated and compared to those expected to be observed with…

Gamma-ray Astronomy studies cosmic accelerators through their electromagnetic radiation in the energy range between ~100 MeV and ~100 TeV. The present most sensitive observations in this energy band are performed, from space, by the Large…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2011-11-29 Javier Rico

For decades, searches for electroweak-scale dark matter (DM) have been performed without a definitive detection. This lack of success may hint that DM searches have focused on the wrong mass range. A proposed candidate beyond the canonical…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-10-26 Donggeun Tak , Matthew Baumgart , Nicholas L. Rodd , Elisa Pueschel

The DArk Matter Particle Explorer (DAMPE) is a space-based instrument for detecting GeV-TeV cosmic rays and gamma rays. High-energy cosmic rays could be emitted from several dark matter candidates theoretically, such as the heavy dark…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-03-18 Tian-Ci Liu , Ben-Yang Zhu , Yun-Feng Liang , Xiao-Song Hu , En-Wei Liang

If the dark matter in the Universe is made of weakly self-interacting particles, they may self-annihilate and emit gamma-rays. We use high resolution numerical simulations to estimate directly the annihilation flux from the central regions…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-09-25 Felix Stoehr , Simon D. M. White , Volker Springel , Giuseppe Tormen , Naoki Yoshida