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Multi-component dark matter particles may have a more intricate direct detection signal than simple elastic scattering on nuclei. In a broad class of well-motivated models the inelastic excitation of dark matter particles is followed by…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-03-19 Maxim Pospelov , Neal Weiner , Itay Yavin

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 investigate the indirect detection search of the two-body decay of dark matter particles into final states containing a photon, a process predicted in various promising dark matter models such as axion-like particles and sterile…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-03-10 Wen Yin , Yutaka Fujita , Yuichiro Ezoe , Yoshitaka Ishisaki

The detection of light dark matter (DM) is a longstanding challenge in terrestrial experiments. High-intensity facility of an intense electromagnetic field may provide a plausible strategy to study strong-field particle physics and search…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-09-03 Kai Ma , Tong Li

Dark matter particles with a mass around 1 eV can decay into near-infrared photons. Utilising available public blank sky observations from the NIRSpec IFU on the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), we search for a narrow emission line due to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-10-25 Ryan Janish , Elena Pinetti

Scenarios with hidden, spontaneously broken, non-abelian gauge groups contain a natural dark matter candidate, the hidden vector, whose longevity is due to an accidental custodial symmetry in the renormalizable Lagrangian. Nevertheless,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-03-13 Chiara Arina , Thomas Hambye , Alejandro Ibarra , Christoph Weniger

Based on almost 20 years of data collected by the high-resolution spectrometer SPI on board the International Gamma-Ray Astrophysics Laboratory (INTEGRAL) we present constraints on a decaying dark matter particle undergoing a decay into two…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-02-15 S. Fischer , D. Malyshev , L. Ducci , A. Santangelo

In this contribution I review the present status and discuss some prospects for indirect detection of dark matter with gamma-rays. Thanks to the Fermi Large Area Telescope, searches in gamma-rays have reached sensitivities that allow to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 Jan Conrad

Measurements of 21cm intensity mapping (IM) during the dark ages can potentially provide us with an unprecedented window on high redshifts and small scales. One of the main advantages this can bring involves the possibility to probe the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-03-06 Eleonora Vanzan , Alvise Raccanelli , Nicola Bartolo

Next-generation tests of fundamental physics and cosmology using large scale structure require measurements over large volumes of the Universe, including high redshifts inaccessible to present-day surveys. Line intensity mapping, an…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-03-15 Kirit S. Karkare , Azadeh Moradinezhad Dizgah , Garrett K. Keating , Patrick Breysse , Dongwoo T. Chung

In the general scenario of Weakly Interacting Massive Particles (WIMP), dark matter (DM) can be observed via astrophysical gamma rays because photons are produced in various DM annihilation or decay processes, either as broad-band or line…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-19 Michele Doro

We search for narrow-line optical emission from dark matter decay by stacking dark-sky spectra from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) at the redshift of nearby galaxies from DESI's Bright Galaxy and Luminous Red Galaxy…

We present the results of the search for decaying dark matter with particle mass in the 6-40 keV range with NuSTAR deep observations of COSMOS and ECDFS empty sky fields. We show that main contribution to the decaying dark matter signal…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-12-07 Andrii Neronov , Denys Malyshev , Dominique Eckert

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

Line-intensity mapping (LIM) experiments coming online now will survey fluctuations in aggregate emission in the [C II] ionized carbon line from galaxies at the end of reionization. Experimental progress must be matched by theoretical…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-06-18 Patrick Horlaville , Dongwoo T. Chung , J. Richard Bond , Lichen Liang

Gamma rays from the annihilation of dark matter particles in the Galactic halo provide a particularly promising means of indirectly detecting dark matter. Here, we demonstrate that pronounced spectral features at energies near the dark…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-12-05 Torsten Bringmann , Francesca Calore , Gilles Vertongen , Christoph Weniger

Similarly to warm dark matter which features a cut-off in the matter power spectrum due to free-streaming, many interacting dark matter models predict a suppression of the matter power spectrum on small length scales through collisional…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-03-23 Markus R. Mosbech , Celine Boehm , Yvonne Y. Y. Wong

Line Intensity Mapping (LIM) is a new observational technique that uses low-resolution observations of line emission to efficiently trace the large-scale structure of the Universe out to high redshift. Common mm/sub-mm emission lines are…

The presence of dark matter (DM) is suggested by a wealth of astrophysical and cosmological measurements. However, its underlying nature is yet unknown. Among the most promising candidates are weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs):…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-08-25 A. Montanari , E. Moulin , D. Malyshev

Dark matter detectors built primarily to probe elastic scattering of WIMPs on nuclei are also precise probes of light, weakly coupled particles that may be absorbed by the detector material. In this paper, we derive constraints on the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-07-23 Haipeng An , Maxim Pospelov , Josef Pradler , Adam Ritz