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The majority of gamma-ray emission from Galactic dark matter annihilation is likely to be detected as a contribution to the diffuse gamma-ray background. I show that dark matter substructure in the halo of the Galaxy induces characteristic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-07-13 Jennifer M. Siegal-Gaskins

We calculate the pair-annihilation cross section of real scalar singlet dark matter into two mono-energetic photons. We derive constraints on the theory parameter space from the Fermi limits on gamma-ray lines, and we compare with current…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-12-24 Stefano Profumo , Lorenzo Ubaldi , Carroll Wainwright

Decaying dark matter particles could be indirectly detected as an excess over a simple power law in the energy spectrum of the diffuse extragalactic gamma-ray background. Furthermore, since the Earth is not located at the center of the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-11-20 Alejandro Ibarra , David Tran , Christoph Weniger

We consider a scenario where the dark sector includes two Feebly Interacting Massive Particles (FIMPs), with couplings to the Standard Model particles that allow their production in the Early Universe via thermal freeze-in. These couplings…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-03-18 Johannes Herms , Alejandro Ibarra

Using an effective interaction approach to describe the interactions between the dark matter particle and the light degrees of freedom of the standard model, we calculate the gamma-ray flux due to the annihilation of the dark matter into…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-06-24 Kingman Cheung , Po-Yan Tseng , Tzu-Chiang Yuan

The hypothetical massive dark photon ($\gamma'$) which has kinetic mixing with the SM photon can decay electromagnetically to $e^+e^-$ pairs if its mass $m$ exceeds $2m_e$ and otherwise into three SM photons. These decays yield cosmological…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-11-21 Demos Kazanas , Rabindra N. Mohapatra , Shmuel Nussinov , Vigdor L. Teplitz , Yongchao Zhang

The discrepancies in different measurements of the lifetime of isolated neutrons could be resolved by considering an extra neutron decay channel into dark matter, with a branching ratio of the order of $O(1$\%). Although the decay channel…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-09-10 Mar Bastero-Gil , Teresa Huertas-Roldan , Daniel Santos

Dark matter annihilation in Galactic substructure produces diffuse gamma-ray emission of remarkably constant intensity across the sky, and in general this signal dominates over the smooth halo signal at angles greater than a few tens of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2009-07-02 Jennifer M. Siegal-Gaskins

The instability of dark matter may produce visible signals in the spectrum of cosmic gamma-rays. We consider this possibility in frameworks with additional spatial dimensions and supersymmetry. Examples of particles include…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-11-10 Jose A. R. Cembranos , Jonathan L. Feng , Louis E. Strigari

Several models of dark matter suggest the existence of hidden sectors consisting of SU(3)_C x SU(2)_L x U(1)_Y singlet fields. The interaction between the ordinary and hidden sectors could be transmitted by new Abelian U'(1) gauge bosons A'…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-12 S. N. Gninenko

We study indirect detection signals from solar annihilation of dark matter (DM) particles into light right-handed (RH) neutrinos with a mass in a $1-5$ GeV range. These RH neutrinos can have a sufficiently long lifetime to allow them to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-04-12 Rouzbeh Allahverdi , Yu Gao , Bradley Knockel , Shashank Shalgar

Late decays of dark matter to a lighter, warm dark matter component are a known way to reduce the amplitude of the matter power spectrum on scales of $8$ Mpc. However, only very few particle physics models have been put forward that exhibit…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-12-01 María Dias Astros , Lukáš Gráf , Stefan Vogl

Dark matter may interact with Standard Model (SM) particle through the exchange of a massive spin-2 graviton producing signals that can be detected. In this work we examine the $\gamma$-ray emission signals, including the line emission and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-03-08 Cun Zhang , Ming-Yang Cui , Lei Feng , Yi-Zhong Fan , Zhong-Zhou Ren

In the past decade, gamma-ray observations and radio observations put strong constraints on the parameters of dark matter annihilation. In this article, we suggest another robust way to constrain the parameters of dark matter annihilation.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-08-09 Man Ho Chan

High resolution simulations reveal that in the cold dark matter scenario the structures form hierarchically and a large number of substructures survive in the galactic halos. The substructures can be probed if they emit gamma rays via dark…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Xiao-Jun Bi

Monochromatic photons could be produced in the annihilation or decay of dark matter particles. At high energies, the search for such line features in the cosmic gamma-ray spectrum is essentially background free because plausible…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-05-27 Gilles Vertongen , Christoph Weniger

We consider the search for gamma-rays produced by the annihilation or decay of low-mass dark matter which couples to quarks. In this scenario, most of the photons are produced from the decays of $\pi^0$ or $\eta$ mesons. These decays…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-01-20 J. G. Christy , Jason Kumar , Arvind Rajaraman

Dark matter (DM) particles decaying in the Galactic halo can inject energetic $e^\pm$ that inverse-Compton scatter (ICS) solar photons into $\gamma$-rays, producing a diffuse and extended halo of emission around the Sun. We present the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-04-02 Maximilian Detering , Shyam Balaji

A long time ago (in 2014), in galaxies and galaxy clusters far, far away, several groups have reported hints for a yet unidentified line in astrophysical X-ray signals at an energy of 3.5\,keV. While it is not unlikely that this line is…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-02-07 Vedran Brdar , Joachim Kopp , Jia Liu , Xiao-Ping Wang

The multi-component decaying dark matter (DM) scenario is investigated to explain the possible excesses in the positron fraction by PAMELA and recently confirmed by AMS-02, and in the total $e^+ +e^-$ flux observed by Fermi-LAT. By…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-04-02 Chao-Qiang Geng , Da Huang , Lu-Hsing Tsai